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1. BLOOD PERFUSION: Thermal imaging detects energy in the form of minute changes in temperature to tenths of a degree Celsius. The blood is a supply line, transporting everything that the body needs to function efficiently. It is in constant metabolic movement: warming, oxygenating, carrying nutrients to every organ, removing waste, protecting, and healing. When the body needs healing, it summons blood to the site, thus creating heat. Sometimes, if a specific organ is in distress, even mild distress, blood will automatically be redirected from the surface to supply extra nutrients to the organ. This can create a cool area on the skin. Because there is a map of the area of the skin that is directly related to each specific organ, it is possible, due to a cooler area on the skin, to identify a potential problem. Thermography is not diagnostic for any specific disease, but it can alert the thermal observer to investigate further. So patterns, whether they represent expected, warmer, or cooler temperatures, give valuable information to anyone who is knowledgeable about thermal physiology. |
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2. METABOLIC CHANGES: The skin not only protects us from the outside world, but it is a
functioning endocrine organ on its own! It produces all hormones and communicates with all organs and biological processes in the body. How perfect that we are observing the skin and its response to hormonal and other endocrine processes. It is the body’s ultimate communication with the outside world, all there for us to observe with our infrared camera! Because these automatic responses function optimally in a relatively healthy person, thermal imaging is most beneficial when observing these changes in a relatively healthy person. This makes thermography the perfect tool to observe changes that eventually, over many years, can become irreversible disease. By then disease management is the only option. This is currently the primary function of our world-wide health system today. If used appropriately, infrared imaging — which is safe, accurate and affordable — can be the discovery tool of choice, especially for the doctor who practices preventive strategies and for the patients who value finding the root cause. So the thermographer uses that FDA approved device that they call a camera… which actually isn’t a camera in the way you are used to. It’s actually a sensor. It senses energy emission coming off the body. The thermographer captures images of what this sensor picks up and then sends them to be interpreted by Physicians who have special training to read and understand these images. Then they send back a report of what they find for you to keep or take to your doctor. It is completely safe for all ages, painless and has no contact with the body. It is a valuable tool used by a healthcare practitioner to evaluate the health of the body. |
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3. WHAT ARE THE INTERPRETING PHYSICIANS LOOKING FOR? A healthy body is expected to
be thermally symmetrical. The Interpreting Physicians are looking for signs of significant asymmetry which can show valuable indications such as; natural healing signs of inflammation, blood profusion, lymphatic congestion, injury, hormonal imbalance and much more. After evaluating these areas they will assess their level of concern (low, moderate or high) as it relates to the thermal patterns. They will also recommend a follow-up appointment for further evaluation, if necessary, or to establish a stable baseline. A baseline is the first scan and the follow up scans give more information. |
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4. Thermography isn’t just for breast scans. Thermal scans may detect possible thermal
related changes which can indicate Inflammation in other areas of the body as well. It’s the only scan that shows inflammation. And as the World Health Organization has said, Inflammation is the most common seed of the most challenging chronic diseases in the body. And the World Health Organization ranks disease as the greatest threat to human health. Worldwide 3 of 5 people will die due to a chronic inflammatory disease. So inflammation is the SEED of DISEASE in the body. |