Auxiliary Device to Alleviate Soldiers' Backload (minkal)

Medical Corps, Israel Defense Force

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Physiological Strain of Weight Bearing.

Treatments: Device: "Minkal"- Auxiliary device to alleviate backload

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01565876

963-2010-CLIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Combat soldiers are required to perform under strenuous physical conditions; hence, their physical fitness is a crucial factor in their survivability.

The Auxiliary Device- "Minkal", is suggested (by its manufactures) to be able to reduce the soldiers' physiological strain by lowering the absolute load being carried by the soldier. As a result, it may improve the soldier's physiological abilities and performance through enduring missions with heavy loads, and may lead to better protection on the soldier from overuse injuries.

Enrollment: 12 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 21 to 28 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy subjects without any of the following: chronic background diseases, cardiovascular, lung or respiratory, heat stroke history, headaches,psychiatric background, musculoskeletal problems, and without drugs use.
• Lack of any acute disease during 2 weeks prior the study.
• Subjects will give their written consent for participating the study after being informed by the study's physician about the study's aims, importance and the possible risks.

Exclusion criteria

• Rectal temperature above 39 Celsius degrees.
• HR above maximal HR ( calculated as 220-age)
• The subject's will to stop the test.
• The researcher's/doctor's judgment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

study

Experimental group

Description:

The participants will undergo 6 days of study. The first day of the study include medical examination, maximal oxigen consumption day and anthropometric mesurments. Then The participants will undergo heat tolerance test 5 times (in different days). first day- without load. second day- with back load of 40% of the body weight. third day- with back load of 40% of the body weight and the Auxilairy Device. fourth day- with back load of 60% of the body weight. fifth day- with back load of 60% of the body weight and the Auxilairy Device. The rectal temperature, skin teperature and heart rate will be mesured each day and compered afterwards.

Treatment:

Device: "Minkal"- Auxiliary device to alleviate backload