Many patients with cervical spinal cord injuries, who have suffered spinal cord damage in the neck due to traffic accidents or other causes, have serious problems with their body temperature regulation, such as sweating disorders that affect almost the whole body. For this reason, the deep body temperature is easily affected by changes in the ambient temperature. In the past, the author estimated the optimal temperature range for patients with cervical spinal cord injuries in spring and fall at a relative humidity of 50%, to be 24±1°C, based on physiological response data from an artificial climate chamber experiment conducted on 23 patients with cervical spinal cord injuries. However, this estimation process did not take into account the fact that the basal metabolic rate of patients with cervical spinal cord injuries is lower than that of healthy people. The purpose of this study is to re-examine the optimal temperature range for patients with cervical spinal cord injuries in spring and fall at a relative humidity of 50%, by adding new experimental data to the artificial climate chamber experiment data that has been accumulated to date, and taking into account the characteristics of the basal metabolism of patients with cervical spinal cord injuries.
Kosei Mikami (Wed,) studied this question.