Infrared Thermography as a Non-Invasive Tool in Musculoskeletal Disease Rehabilitation—The Control Variables in Applicability—A Systematic Review

Lubkowska, Anna; Pluta, Waldemar

doi:10.3390/app12094302

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“…Sensitivity for CRPS has been reported as low as 45% [ 63 ]. Thermography requires specialized equipment and accuracy depends on the ability to maintain thermoregulation during measurements [ 65 , 79 ]. The utility of other autonomic function tests including, quantitative sudomotor axon reflex testing and thermoregulatory sweat testing, have similar limitations in that they require specialized equipment, knowledgeable operators, and they have a lower specificity for CRPS [ 63 , 65 ].…”

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A brief review of complex regional pain syndrome and current management

Abd-Elsayed,

Stark,

Topoluk

et al. 2024

Annals of Medicine

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Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a debilitating chronic pain condition that, although exceedingly rare, carries a significant burden for the affected patient population. The complex and ambiguous pathophysiology of this condition further complicates clinical management and therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, being a diagnosis of exclusion requires a diligent workup to ensure an accurate diagnosis and subsequent targeted management. The development of the Budapest diagnostic criteria helped to consolidate existing definitions of CRPS but extensive work remains in identifying the underlying pathways. Currently, two distinct types are identified by the presence (CRPS type 1) or absence (CRPS type 2) of neuronal injury. Current management directed at this disease is broad and growing, ranging from non-invasive modalities such as physical and psychological therapy to more invasive techniques such as dorsal root ganglion stimulation and potentially amputation. Ideal therapeutic interventions are multimodal in nature to address the likely multifactorial pathological development of CRPS. Regardless, a significant need remains for continued studies to elucidate the pathways involved in developing CRPS as well as more robust clinical trials for various treatment modalities.

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Section: Presentation and Diagnosismentioning

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A brief review of complex regional pain syndrome and current management

Abd-Elsayed,

Stark,

Topoluk

et al. 2024

Annals of Medicine

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“…For this reason, IRT has been suggested as a tool that can help to recognize injuries and changes in surface temperature and be implemented in the recovery process, particularly in cases requiring physical therapy [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ]. Therapies such as acupuncture, photo biomodulation, electrostimulation, or thermotherapy can modify the superficial thermal response associated with the inflammatory process and pain [ 22 , 23 , 24 ].…”

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Application of Infrared Thermography in the Rehabilitation of Patients in Veterinary Medicine

Casas-Alvarado,

Ogi,

Villanueva-García

et al. 2024

Animals

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Infrared Thermography (IRT) has become an assistance tool in medicine and is used to noninvasively evaluate heat elimination during and after inflammatory processes or during the recovery period. However, its application in veterinary patients undergoing physiotherapy is a field that requires deep research. This review aims to analyze the application of IRT in the monitoring of animal physiotherapy, using the thermal changes that are present in patients undergoing gait or lameness issues (e.g., inflammation, pain, increased local temperature) as a neurobiological basis. Rehabilitation techniques such as acupuncture, physical therapies, thermotherapy, photo-biomodulation, and electrostimulation have been reported to have an anti-inflammatory effect that decreases the amount of local heat production, which is heat that can be recorded with IRT. Therefore, IRT could be used as a complementary tool to evaluate the effectiveness of the therapy, and it is suggested that further studies evaluate the accuracy, sensibility, and sensitivity of IRT.

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“…The local skin temperature magnitudes and distributions also relate to the inflammatory status of the skin and thereby, indirectly, to the susceptibility to superficial PUs/PIs at the relevant anatomical location 28 . The spatial skin temperature can be acquired non‐invasively by means of contactless IRT, a quantitative, robust and cost‐effective method for skin temperature mapping using a thermal camera 14,15,29,30 . Our previously published work revealed that entropy, a measure of the degree of randomness of pixels in an IRT image of skin (extracted using an image processing algorithm), effectively identifies skin irritation conditions through the thermal response of the tissue, even if visual signs of skin surface redness are not (yet) present 14 .…”

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Testing the effectiveness of a polymeric membrane dressing in modulating the inflammation of intact, non‐injured, mechanically irritated skin

Dabas

Kreychman

Katz

et al. 2023

International Wound Journal

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We investigated the inflammatory (IL‐1 alpha) and thermal (infrared thermography) reactions of healthy sacral skin to sustained, irritating mechanical loading. We further acquired digital photographs of the irritated skin (at the visible light domain) to assess whether infrared imaging is advantageous. For clinical context, the skin status was monitored under a polymeric membrane dressing known to modulate the inflammatory skin response. The IL‐1 alpha and infrared thermography measurements were consistent in representing the skin status after 40 min of continuous irritation. Infrared thermography overpowered conventional digital photography as a contactless optical method for image processing inputs, by revealing skin irritation trends that were undetectable through digital photography in the visual light, not even with the aid of advanced image processing. The polymeric membrane dressings were shown to offer prophylactic benefits over simple polyurethane foam in the aspects of inflammation reduction and microclimate management. We also concluded that infrared thermography is a feasible method for monitoring the skin health status and the risk for pressure ulcers, as it avoids the complexity of biological marker studies and empowers visual skin assessments or digital photography of skin, both of which were shown to be insufficient for detecting the inflammatory skin status.

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Infrared Thermography as a Non-Invasive Tool in Musculoskeletal Disease Rehabilitation—The Control Variables in Applicability—A Systematic Review

Cited by 11 publications

References 67 publications

A brief review of complex regional pain syndrome and current management

A brief review of complex regional pain syndrome and current management

Application of Infrared Thermography in the Rehabilitation of Patients in Veterinary Medicine

Testing the effectiveness of a polymeric membrane dressing in modulating the inflammation of intact, non‐injured, mechanically irritated skin

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