Fig. 4.

Effects of local and whole body heating on bone blood flow. Both local and whole body heating increased bone blood flow of the covered leg (A) (**P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001 from normothermic baseline). Bone blood flow was higher in the covered leg during local heating compared with whole body heating (*P < 0.05) (A). However, in the leg not covered by the water-perfused suit, bone blood flow did not change from normothermic baseline values regardless of the perturbation (P = 0.2 from ANOVA) (B).