{"id":2805,"date":"2024-03-06T23:08:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2024-03-06T23:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:18:34","slug":"hashmi-heel-blister-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro.blister-prevention.com\/office-hours\/hashmi-heel-blister-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion of Hashmi (2013) Experimental Heel Blister Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Thank you for joining me on this episode of Blister Prevention Office Hours. We’re going to be looking at the Hashmi et al (2013)<\/a> study today, all about posterior heel blisters. I had intended to look at this in greater detail last month, but it just morphed into its own presentation. So now we’re going to be talking about this paper. If you didn’t catch last month\u2019s episode<\/a>, I highly recommend you take a look because it was a really good discussion about posterior heel blisters and all the relevant factors. We had a good look at the relative motion scenarios at heel lift and heel strike; had a quick look at research; and we delved into quite some depth on how the prevention’s work. So if you are here to look at what works as a blister prevention for the posterior heel, then definitely head back to last month’s episode and watch that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So yeah, we’re going to look at the Hashmi research. We\u2019ll look at the aims, the methods and all of the findings and implications. This paper is titled: The formation of friction blisters on the foot: the development of a laboratory-based blister creation model, and it was in Skin Research and Technology<\/a>. It was by Farina Hashmi, Barry Richards, Saeed Forghany and Chris Nester. What they did was they produced blisters on the posterior heel with this jig; I’m going to explain this in more detail in a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So the aims were twofold. What they wanted to do was have a look at how digital infrared thermographic imaging correlated with the contact method of temperature measurement, which was just a normal thermometer basically where it’s actually touching the skin to get the measurement. And also to describe the temperature changes before, during and after blister formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is what a digital infrared thermographic imaging camera looks like. I got this picture off eBay – you can buy this for $200AUD. This isn\u2019t the exact model they used but it would have been this kind of camera which produces this kind of image. And this is an example of the images that they were able to produce, before, during and after blister formation indicating temperatures and temperature change.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat we\u2019ll cover<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Aims<\/h2>\n\n\n\n