Has anyone used any kind of thermo-imaging to monitor the severity, progress and/or recovery of sport-related injury in muscles or ligaments? We are thinking of monitoring the acute effect of pitching in shoulders and elbows in teenage baseball players. We would also like to monitor the potential overuse injuries longitudinally in these teenage baseball pitchers. MRI is too expensive and we cannot get the kids to hospitals for MRIs every day. Does anyone know any kind of instrument that may be suitable for this purpose and if the results are acceptable? We also welcome any cooperation on this topic.
Hello Chen-Kang Chang
We have used thermo-imaging to evaluate the effects of different insoles on warm-up/heat production in (treadmill) walking. The generall effects of warming up were clearly visible but the differences beetween our experimental conditions were small. I can send you an exmaple if you contact me directly with your email address.
I have used it for my self to heal my shoulder trauma. It did work, however if somebody interested to read more about it I refer you to this article:
Thermal strain imaging: a review
1. Chi Hyung Seo1,
2. Yan Shi2,
3. Sheng-Wen Huang2,
4. Kang Kim3 and
5. Matthew O'Donnell4,*
+ Author Affiliations
1. 1Siemens Healthcare, Issaquah, WA, USA
2. 2Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA
3. 3Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
4. 4Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
*Author for correspondence ([email protected]).
Dear Chen-Kang,
You may be interested in our recent article on this.
Costello, Joseph, Stewart, Ian B., Selfe, James, Karki, Anne I., & Donnelly, Alan (2013) Use of thermal imaging in sports medicine research : a short report. International Sportmed Journal, 14(2), pp. 94-98
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/61073/
Regards,
Joe
Dear Chen-Kang,
You can check www.group-pema.com for more information about the application of IRT in sport injuries.
One of our members is finishing his PhD in ACL injuries, you can check one of his papers here http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/153744
Now we have under review a paper in which almost 230 injury cases have been reported and established their thermal differences. Will be a nice work!
Anyway, author references in thermal imaging are Joseph Costello, Hildebrandt, João Carlos Bouzas Marins, Manuel Sillero Quintana, Ismael Fernández Cuevas and Sergio Piñonosa Cano.
Regards,
Javi
I'm traveling. I can send you next week. I' very some muscle injury images
Se you next week
Dear Chen-Kang Chang
I have used Thermal Imaging on the Achilles tendon in my normative data study before, during and after acupuncture, sham acupuncture and eccentric exercise. I have also used it more recently on Achilles tendonopathy, currently finalising the data collection phase. I have found it yields acurate and reliable results. The equipment I have used is the FLIRA325 Thermal Imaging camera.
dear everyone, I am interested in all information regarding thermal imaging as I am preparing a paper on its use in a case study related to circulation disorder. So please D. Rosenbaum and others, send me your studies and or information. [email protected]
Am also interested if there are many brands of these machines and if they have been compared at all.
Thanking you in advance Esther
I have been using thermal imaging in the operative and sports injured knee for years. Have not yet published the data.Still collecting control numbers, but mean normal control temperature taken by non-contact infra-red detector ( hand held model Raytek MT4 accurate to within 1/2 degree F) over the anterior knee is approx 86 degrees F
(30 C) I prefer to measure in F because it is more " granular". Anything above 90F (32.2C) or below 80F (26.6C) is considered abnormal (one SD off the mean).
It is useful to put a quantitative number on a knee that you are tracking ( also excellent for med-legal purposes - instead of saying "this knee feels warmer").
I track all my post-op knees out from the first P/O visit. and watch as the temperatures converge - this process can take an extremely long time: easily 9-18 months or more. The temps manifest directly subsurface blood-flow, of course, but it is a not too bad "Proxy" indicator for homeostasis of the joint as a whole. My goal for my patients is Always "Tissue/Joint Homeostasis" ( with its associated Pain-Free knee -hopefully for decades -rather than structural or Biomechanical normality, or "Return to Sport as Soon as Possible" which is a Totally Anti-Biological, Illogical concept, that is an excellent way to develop early, irreversible arthritis).
The best indicators of successful knee surgery are: 1) Total Clinical Silence ( a subjectively normal feeling joint) 2) A Normal Tc99m-MDP bone scan - a sensitive indicator of restoration of osseous homeostasis ( much better Proxy of Joint Homeostasis that normal surface temperatures, and 3) A Normal Rosenberg X-ray ( a wt bearing bent knee PR view that is highly sensitive to joint space narrowing.
Notice I did Not mention: laxity measurements, or any MRI data. Those data are irrelevant IF one can achieve and Maintain Full Joint Homeostasis ( the New Emerging Orthopedic M/S Paradigm).
Feel free to contact me with any questions/ comments
Scott F Dye MD San Francisco [email protected]
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