The vented system (VS) significantly attenuated relative humidity (RH) and no change in temperature on the skin liner interface following activity in a climate-controlled room
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Each session for determination of RH lasted 1 h and 25 min and occurred in an ambient temperature room (T:21 °C ± 1 °C, H:41% ± 2%) followed by performing activities in a heated room (T:30 °C ± 1 °C, H:54% ± 6%) then post activity return-back to the ambient temperature room (Fig. Reduction in relative humidity measurements on the skin liner interface following activity.The RH environmental data collected simultaneously with the RH from skin-liner interface confirmed that the reduction in RH at the skin interface was not due to changes in environmental conditions. The conditions were comparable in both VS and nVS groups (Fig. Relative humidity and temperature of environment in the study room.To further investigate the humidity change during activity, AUC was computed and the representative relative humidity-time graph highlighting the region considered is shown (Fig. The reduction in mean relative humidity by VS in the residual limb normalized to sound limb.Perceived sweat was one of the secondary outcomes. A paired, one-sample, two-tailed t-test was used to compare perceived sweat ratings between the VS and nVS (During activity, an increase in temperatures within sockets has been reported to result in discomfortTemperature changes during activity compared to baseline. Representative temperature plots 