PLICOMETER 0-40mm - mechanical - FAT-1

Economical and precise caliper, made in Italy. It measures the thickness of the skin folds in various areas of the body, according to the characteristics of the instrument created by Tanner and Whitehouse:

- pressure exerted on the skin fold: approximately 10 g/mm2

- contact surface on the fold: approximately 6 x 11 mm

This tool allows us to give an exact assessment of the nutritional status of the subject under examination and how his adipose tissue is distributed sectorally. The user lifts a fold of skin between his fingers to measure its thickness with the instrument's calipers: on the upper edge there is a scale in millimeters on which an arrow moves which immediately measures the fold (tricipital, subscapularis, etc.) with a It is approximately 1/2mm. At the same time as the measurement, the colored bands inserted near said scale allow the value detected to be compared with the separate reference percentiles for men and women. Supplied with user manual that helps in interpreting the values.

Useful in dietetics, cardiology, sports medicine, aesthetic medicine, gynecology, paediatrics, etc.

Multilingual manual: GB, FR, IT, DE, ES, GR, PT, Arabic.