Finger and Toe Temperature Responses to Cold After Freezing Cold Injury in Elite Alpinists

Cold still kills: cold-related illnesses in military practice freezing and non-freezing cold injury.

Effect of chronic local cold exposure on finger temperature responses.

17(2): 3’7-322. I g62.-Caucasian subjects from a temperate climate immersed their right index fingers in a stirred icewater bath for 20 min four times daily for I month. During subsequent test immersion, fingers exposed in this way showed an earlier initiation and a more rapid rate of spontaneous rewarming and a higher and more labile final temperature level than did either the same finger befo...

Clinical Aspects of Freezing Cold Injury

Non-freezing cold injury: a multi-faceted syndrome.

We read the paper “Chronic non-freezing cold injury results in neuropathic pain due to a sensory neuropathy” by Vale and colleagues recently published in Brain with great interest. Despite the impact non-freezing cold injury (NFCI) can have on an individual’s quality of life, little research has been conducted on this condition. Indeed, in the last 10 years only 16 full papers have been publish...

The Effect of Gentle Exercise Prior to a Cold Sensitivity Test used to Classify Non-Freezing Cold Injury

A cold sensitivity test (CST) is one of the assessments used to classify the level of non-freezing cold injury (NFCI) in patients presented to a cold injury clinic. The CST involves sitting in a chamber at 30°C for at least 30 min then immersing the injured site (usually a foot) in water at 15°C for 2 min. The NFCI classification is based on the skin temperature before and 5 min after immersion...