A STUDY ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE EFFECTS OF COLD AND HOT STIMULI BY WAY OF THE FLICKER TEST

Abstract

In “the determination of fatigue in the terms of a single index”which has heretofore been an outstanding theme in the study of fatigue, some simple, method has been eagerly sought for until today for practical applications especially, on the job, not only in the field of sports, but also in the field of industrial labor as well. To meet this demand, the Flicker test has, only recently, come to draw much attention of those who are interested on the subject matter. The author, by making use of such a method, examined the effect of cold and hot stimuli to the skin (the Okuhara method) regarding the results of recovery from fatigue, the persons used for the purpose of this examination being the office clerks engaged in the daily accounting work. Thus, the values obtained by the test conducted on 10 object persons. Some of them were subjected to the stimuli for 5 consecutive days, while other were not. Then, the values of two different kinds were compared and carefully studied. From these test results, the author has reached a conclusion that such a method of giving stimuli to the skin of the daily office workers is an ideal method of restoring the fatigue of such a degree as that of the clerks engaged in the routine office work. In view of the circumstances, the author is strongly of the opinion that the Flicker test has an appreciable practical value, for such purposes mentioned above, and provides an index for a simple method measurement.