Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan.
Med Sci Monit. 2012 Mar;18(3):CR148-53. doi: 10.12659/msm.882519.
Exposure to a warm environment has been reported to be effective for recovery from mental fatigue. However, there have been no reports examining the effects of a pellet stove on recovery from mental fatigue. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a pellet stove on recovery from mental fatigue.
MATERIAL/METHODS: In this placebo-controlled, crossover experiment, 16 healthy volunteers were randomized into the pellet stove and control groups. After a 30-min fatigue-inducing mental task session, participants moved to a recovery room with (pellet stove condition) or without (control condition) a pellet stove to see the image of a pellet stove for 30 min.
After the recovery session, the participants exposed to the pellet stove condition showed lower total error counts of a cognitive test, higher levels of subjective healing, comfort, and warmth, and sympathetic nerve activity and higher parasympathetic nerve activity as compared with the control condition.
These results provide evidence that improved cognitive function, subjective mental states, and balance of the autonomic nervous activities result from using a pellet stove during the recovery session. Hence, the pellet stove was effective for the recovery from mental fatigue.
暴露于温暖的环境中已被证实对精神疲劳的恢复有效。然而，目前尚无研究报告探讨颗粒炉对精神疲劳恢复的影响。本研究旨在探讨颗粒炉对精神疲劳恢复的影响。
材料/方法：在这项安慰剂对照交叉实验中，16 名健康志愿者随机分为颗粒炉组和对照组。在进行 30 分钟的疲劳诱发精神任务后，参与者进入一个恢复室，在恢复室中（颗粒炉条件）或没有颗粒炉（对照条件）的情况下观看颗粒炉图像 30 分钟。
恢复后，暴露于颗粒炉条件的参与者在认知测试中的总错误计数较低，主观的恢复、舒适和温暖感较高，交感神经活动较高，副交感神经活动较高。
这些结果表明，在恢复过程中使用颗粒炉可改善认知功能、主观精神状态和自主神经活动的平衡。因此，颗粒炉对精神疲劳的恢复是有效的。
