Method for Quantifying Assessment of Contract Thermography: Effect of Extremity Dominance on Temperature Distribution Patterns

Gross, Michael T.; Schuch, Charles P.; Huber, Elizabeth C.; Scoggins, Janet F.; Sullivan, Sarah H.

doi:10.2519/jospt.1989.10.10.412

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“…Nonetheless, the difference of 0.3ºC is not rele vant. Even though healthy individuals tend to present small differences between body hemispheres (close to 0°C [25]), there was previously reported an average mean difference of 0.4° ±0.3°C [9] between right and left sides of healthy individuals, a value close to the differ ence observed in the present study.…”

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Cutaneous temperature and pressure pain threshold in individuals with knee osteoarthritis

Alfieri¹,

Silva²,

Santos³

et al. 2020

Reumatologia

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Introduction: Osteoarthritis is a common disease in which skin temperature may be included among the pathophysiological factors. Thermography allows the mapping of cutaneous tempera ture and may be employed in the investigation of osteoarthritis. Objectives: To evaluate cutaneous temperature of the lower limbs, as well as to verify its associa tion with pressure pain thresholds in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. Material and methods: This case series study was conducted with individuals of both genders aged 48-77 years with unilateral knee osteoarthritis. Volunteers underwent thermographic evalua tion by an infrared sensor (FLIR T650SC). The anterior region of the thigh and leg and the knee area were evaluated. Pressure pain thresholds (PPT) were evaluated by algometry (Pain Diagnostics, Great Neck, USA) at the vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, rectus femoris, and patellar tendon. Data analy sis was conducted with the statistical package SPSS v.24 for Windows. Comparisons between affected and unaffected sides were made by paired Student's ttest or the MannWhitney U test, and associations between variables were assessed by Pearson or Spearman's correlation coefficient. In all cases, the significance level was set at p ≤ 0.05. Results: Eleven volunteers (63.1 ±9.5 years) participated in this study. When comparing cutaneous temperature, only the region of the knee showed a significant difference between sides (p = 0.02). There were no differences between affected and unaffected knees regarding pain tolerance (PPT) at all sites evaluated. There were also no significant associations between the study variables. Conclusions: Individuals with knee osteoarthritis presented a higher temperature of the affected knee, but this was not associated with pressure pain thresholds.

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Cutaneous temperature and pressure pain threshold in individuals with knee osteoarthritis

Alfieri¹,

Silva²,

Santos³

et al. 2020

Reumatologia

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“…The temperature data has shown that, among the ROI, only the calcaneus had completely symmetric measurements, given both hemispheres must be symmetric with difference close to 0°C when measured in healthy individuals [15]. Older classifications reported that a difference of 1°C between both sides was considered normal [12].…”

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Acute Effect of Robotic Therapy (G-EO System™) on the Lower Limb Temperature Distribution of a Patient with Stroke Sequelae

Alfieri

Dias

Santos

et al. 2019

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine

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Robotic therapy has been gaining prominence in poststroke rehabilitation programs. An example of these devices is the G-EO System™, which simulates gait as well as other more complexes standards of gait such as the steps on stairs. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no studies that apply thermography as a tool to evaluate stroke patients who undertook rehabilitation programs with the aid of robotic devices. The patient IWPS undergoes sequelae of hemorrhagic stroke for 19 months and consequently hemiplegia, had scores of 93 points in the Fugl-Meyer scale, is undertaking a physical rehabilitation program for six months, has no complaints of discomfort due to thermic sensitivity imbalances between the plegic and the contralateral sides, and voluntarily reports that he realizes functionality improvements especially, according to his perception, due to the aid of the robotic therapy in his gait training with the G-EO System™. The thermographic images were captured by an infrared sensor FLIR T650SC. By analyzing the temperature differences between both hemispheres of the body, before, immediately after, and 30 minutes after a robotic therapy for gait training, we observed that the values firstly increased immediately after the training, but after the 30-minute rest an important thermoregulation was achieved.

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“…In spite of IRT limitations as a diagnostic tool, Bertmaring et al also recommends the use of IRT to evaluate and identify injuries and musculoskeletal disorders (38). Some of the most representative applications, in the medical and physiological environment, where thermography is being used successfully are (39,151,203,227,267,332):…”

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“…-Musculoligamentous injuries (332) of the spine (207), shoulder (270,299,394), trapezius (310) and forearm (360), including arthritis, bursitis and tendinitis (92,151,364,399).…”

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Infrared thermography and shoulder pain in wheelchair users = Termografía infrarroja y dolor de hombro en usuarios de sillas de ruedas

Fernández¹

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Method for Quantifying Assessment of Contract Thermography: Effect of Extremity Dominance on Temperature Distribution Patterns

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Cutaneous temperature and pressure pain threshold in individuals with knee osteoarthritis

Cutaneous temperature and pressure pain threshold in individuals with knee osteoarthritis

Acute Effect of Robotic Therapy (G-EO System™) on the Lower Limb Temperature Distribution of a Patient with Stroke Sequelae

Infrared thermography and shoulder pain in wheelchair users = Termografía infrarroja y dolor de hombro en usuarios de sillas de ruedas

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