Medición de panículos adiposos

Abstract

The skin folds measure allow assessing body fat deposits in humans. Its measurement is complex, requires knowledge acquired over experience time of the technique to get consistent results. By the use of formulas and skin folds values, body density, fat mass and fat-free mass could be predicted, it is useful to assess nutritional state. Students learn and practice the measurement techniques of the bicipital, tricipital, sub scapular, suprailiac, supraspinal and abdominal skin folds. To carry out the practice students needs alcohol swabs, fine fiber pencil, anthropometric tape and a body caliper. To measure any of the mentioned folds must be locate the anatomical reference site, mark it and measure it always holding the fold until the end of the use of the caliper. Students are integrated into teams of 3, a model, assessor and assistant, the results are recorded in the appropriate format, using the Durnin method by summation of 4-folds students gets fat mass in kilograms and the fat percentage.