Measurements of cutaneous warm and cold thermal sensitivity in leg and foot have been made with voluntarily participants of middle-aged Japanese female. Sixteen locations have been selected in the leg and the foot as target locations for the present study. The obtained warm thresholds were significantly larger than that the cold thresholds in the target locations (p< 0.05). That is, the result indicated that the sensitivity to detect warmth was less than to detect coldness in the leg and the

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... t. For the warm threshold, although there were regional differences found not to be significant in the tested locations, strong tendencies were seen in the local differences (p= 0.053). The largest warm threshold was seen in the outside the sole. For the cold threshold, there were significant local differences found to be remarkable in the tested regions (p< 0.001). The cold threshold in the outside of the foot sole was largest than those in the other tested locations except heel with significances (p< 0.05-0.001). This means, therefore, the sensitivity to detect coldness was lower on the outside of sole in the leg and foot.