Does local cryotherapy improve thermal diagnosis similar to whole-body cryotherapy in spinal diseases?

Cholewka, Armand; Stanek, Agata; Wójcik, Magdalena; Sieroń–Stołtny, Karolina; Drzazga, Z.

doi:10.1007/s10973-016-5453-3

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“…Most of them have thermal effects, resulting in a change of the temperature in the treated area [4]. Thermal imaging is one of the most sufficient methods of superficial temperature distribution examination [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20].…”

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Application of thermal imaging to assess the superficial skin temperature distribution after local cryotherapy and ultrasound

Boerner

Podbielska

2017

J Therm Anal Calorim

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Thermal imaging is a safe, noninvasive, and quite low-cost technique that allows for the rapid and noninvasive recording of thermal radiation emitted by the human body. In recent years, it is increasingly used for physiotherapy monitoring. The main goal of the study was to compare the influence of two various treatments applied in two various orders, namely local cryotherapy (CRYO) and ultrasound therapy (US). The impact of combined therapies, applied in two various orders, was studied in terms of changes of the superficial temperature distribution on the front right thigh surface. The response to the therapy depending the treated persons' gender, along with a consensual reaction, was examined. The research material consisted of 30 healthy volunteers, 19-23-year old students, aged 19.93 (± 1.42). All treatments were performed at weekly intervals in the following order: in the first week, CRYO immediately followed by US, and in the second week, ultrasound immediately followed by local cryotherapy. All treatments were performed on the right quadriceps. The combined sequence of local cryotherapy and ultrasound therapy caused temperature decrease in the treated area regardless of their performance order. The temperature decrease considerably depends on the sequence of the applied treatments, and it was more significant after the ultrasound-cryotherapy sequence.Moreover, these changes also lasted longer. Statistically significant influence of the subjects' gender was observed in case of consensual reaction.

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“…These include analgesic activity, muscle relaxing, vasodilation, stabilizing the sympathetic nervous system, inhibiting the inflammatory processes [15]. The therapeutic effect of physiotherapy may be monitored by analyzing temperature changes on the superficial tissues [16][17][18][19][20].…”

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Application of thermal imaging to assess the superficial skin temperature distribution after local cryotherapy and ultrasound

Boerner

Podbielska

2017

J Therm Anal Calorim

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“…Whole-Body Cryotherapy (WBC) is a widely used treatment to help alleviate muscle soreness, depression, rheumatic conditions, ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory symptoms and also to contribute to enhance muscular recovery [1,2]. In sport medicine, the use of cryotherapy has become widespread in recent years, and numerous studies in the literature have investigated the benefits of cryotherapy for athletes [3][4][5].…”

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Should whole body cryotherapy sessions be differentiated between women and men? A preliminary study on the role of the body thermal resistance

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The aim of this study was to investigate how body thermal resistance between sexes evolves over time in the recovery period after a WBC session and to show how this parameter should be considered as a key parameter in WBC protocols. Eighteen healthy participants volunteered for the study (10 males and 8 females). Temperature (core and skin) were recorded pre- and post (immediately and every 5 min until 35 min post) exposure to a single bout of WBC (30 s at -60 °C, 150 s at -110 °C). From both core and skin temperatures a bio-heat transfer model was applied which led to the analytical formulation of the body thermal resistance. An unsteady behavior presenting a similar time-evolution trend in the body insulative response is shown for both females and males, possibly due to the vasodilatation process following an intense peripheral vasoconstriction during the extreme cold. Females present a 37% higher inner thermal resistance than males when reaching an asymptotical thermal state at rest due to a higher concentration of body fat percentage. Adiposity of tissues inherent in fat mass percentage appears to be a key parameter in the body thermal resistance to be taken into account in the definition of appropriate protocols for males and females. The conclusions of this preliminary study suggest that in order to achieve the same skin effects on temperature and consequently to cool efficiency tissues in the same way, the duration of cryotherapy protocols should be shorter when considering female compared to male.

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“…were controlled following the guidelines for thermographic measurements in medical applications given by the European Association of Thermology [49]. Thermography is well known and scientifically approved method of temperature distribution measurements in medicine and physiotherapy [50] and thus often used for screen tests [51,52], early diagnosis [53,54], or treatment personalization [19,55] etc.…”

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The influence of smartphones’ operation modes on the superficial temperature distribution in the human auricle region

Bauer

Górecki

Kohyt

et al. 2018

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In this study, the infrared thermography was used to examine heating effects in human auricle region due to short-duration use of smartphones in normal and flight mode operation by 20 healthy volunteers (age 19-24 years, 9 females and 11 males). Statistically significant differences in both modes were observed between mean temperatures of the auricle regions before and immediately after the use of the smartphone. The increase in tissue temperature resulted from a combined effect of conductive heat transfer caused by the non-microwave-related activity of the smartphone and the absorption of the radiofrequency microwaves. Furthermore, we observed the thermal effect even after 1 h of such short use of the smartphone. The transient temperature change in tissues due to smartphone use can contribute to the cumulative thermal effects and thus both short-and long-duration use of smartphones should be considered in future studies. The small study also showed a gender dimension in the thermal response, which also merits further investigation. The study confirmed the usefulness of using thermography for direct quantitative analyses of temperature changes related to smartphone usage, which can be exploited in future epidemiological studies in personalized and preventive medicine.

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Does local cryotherapy improve thermal diagnosis similar to whole-body cryotherapy in spinal diseases?

Cited by 21 publications

References 12 publications

Application of thermal imaging to assess the superficial skin temperature distribution after local cryotherapy and ultrasound

Application of thermal imaging to assess the superficial skin temperature distribution after local cryotherapy and ultrasound

Should whole body cryotherapy sessions be differentiated between women and men? A preliminary study on the role of the body thermal resistance

The influence of smartphones’ operation modes on the superficial temperature distribution in the human auricle region

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