Abstract
We examined the influence of clothing weight on cervico-omo-brachial fatigue by using sensory evaluation, clothing pressure and EMG. The subjects were 10 university students (19-22 years of age) and 9 elderly women (68-79 years of age), for a total of 19. (1) As clothing weight increased, the motion adaptability of young women decreased. However, this tendency was not seen in the elderly women. (2) When a jacket was worn, the highest clothing pressure was found to be in the shoulder for the young women and in the neck for the elderly women. (3) The shoulder angle was significantly smaller when the highest clothing pressure was in the shoulder compared to when it was in the side of the neck (p<0.001). (4) As clothing weight increased, the muscle burden was significantly larger for the elderly women than it was for the young women (p<0.05).