Fig. 2.

Effects of local and whole heating on muscle blood flow. Local heating increased muscle blood flow of the covered leg (A) (*P < 0.05 vs. normothermic baseline). Muscle blood flow was also higher in the covered leg during whole body heating compared with normothermic baseline (P = 0.037) (A). However, in the leg not covered by the water-perfused suit, muscle blood flow did not change from normothermic baseline values regardless of the perturbation (P = 0.87 from the ANOVA) (B).