Intravital biomechanical testing of human skin integuments during functional cyclic loading

Abstract

A new device for assessment of biomechanical properties of human skin integuments is proposed, which can be used in the process of testing with veloergometric load.
Evaluation of the device allows to reveal, that characteristic decrease of skin integument elasticity during testing is more marked in sportsmen and sound adult subjects in comparison with children and adolescents. Initial indices of elasticity are higher in patients, disadapted to physical loads, during the treatment according to Ilizarov, that is connected with hyperhydration of tissues, less level of fitness to work and amplitude of changes in the index of tissue elasticity.