{"id":1857,"date":"2018-12-18T14:14:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2023-05-06T19:16:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T09:16:56","slug":"does-rubbing-cause-blisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/blog\/does-rubbing-cause-blisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Faster Rubbing Cause Blisters More Than Slower Rubbing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"#2 Does faster rubbing (and more heat) cause more blisters?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IPb_WwjYvQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Does faster rubbing cause blisters quicker than slower rubbing? Presumably faster rubbing produces more heat, causing more friction blisters. Or perhaps causing them to appear sooner?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I want to show you a piece of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1365-2133.1955.tb12657.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blister research<\/a>\u00a0that was done all the way back in 1955 by Naylor. It was one of the first pieces of blister research done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was testing the hypothesis that increased rubbing speed caused more blisters. He increased the rubbing speed by 50% (he was causing experimental blisters on a group of military recruits) and found there was *no* increase in blister formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s more, he also caused the blisters with two types of material. One was a low <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thermal_conductivity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thermal conductivity<\/a>, and one had a high thermal conductivity. And again, there was *no* change in blister rates. If heat was an important factor in blister formation, one would expect to see a difference here. One would expect the low thermal conductivity head would cause more blisters, and the high thermal conductivity head to cause less blisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So even right from the start, back in 1955, there was doubt over whether blisters were caused by an increase in heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week&#8217;s 60-second blister tip is brought to you by Fix My Foot Blisters Fast<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.blisterprevention.com.au\/courses\/fix-my-foot-blisters-fast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JOIN FIX MY FOOT BLISTERS FAST<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naylor P:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1365-2133.1955.tb12657.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Experimental friction blisters<\/a>. British Journal of Dermatology 1995;67:327\u2013342.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does faster rubbing cause blisters more than slower rubbing? Counterintuitively, no! We know this thanks to blister research performed all the way back in 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}