1. The effectiveness of infrared thermography in patients with whiplash injury
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Kun Su Lee, Won Hee Lee, Young Seo Lee, Sung Tae Kim, Sung Hwa Paeng, and Hooman F. Farhadi
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Hyperthermia ,Whiplash injury ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Clinical Article ,business.industry ,Visual analogue scale ,General Neuroscience ,Pain ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Thermal difference ,Female patient ,Thermography ,medicine ,Infrared thermography ,In patient ,Neurology (clinical) ,Nuclear medicine ,business ,Normal range ,After treatment - Abstract
Objective : This study aims to visualize the subjective symptoms before and after the treatment of whiplash injury using infrared (IR) thermography. Methods : IR thermography was performed for 42 patients who were diagnosed with whiplash injury. There were 19 male and 23 female patients. The mean age was 43.12 years. Thermal differences (∆T) in the neck and shoulder and changes in the thermal differences (∆dT) before and after treatment were analyzed. Pain after injury was evaluated using visual analogue scale (VAS) before and after treatment (∆VAS). The correlations between ∆dT and ∆VAS results before and after the treatment were examined. We used Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging equipment of Dorex company for IR thermography. Results : The skin temperature of the neck and shoulder immediately after injury showed 1–2°C hyperthermia than normal. After two weeks, the skin temperature was normal range. ∆T after immediately injuy was higher than normal value, but it was gradually near the normal value after two weeks. ∆dT before and after treatment were statistically significant ( p
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- 2014