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Pain & Sports Injury diagnosis and treatment
Scans That Show Pain (INFRARED THERMAL IMAGING)
The Pain & Injury Centre has another unique tool that should be mentioned here. It involves a state of the art technique known as medical infrared scanning, which is a non-invasive, radiation-free system using infrared thermal imaging that can be seen in a sense as a form of photograph which shows pain.
In sports & injury medicine, thermal scans are not just an excellent screening tool but additionally can help both damage limitation and recovery; they are used for:
- Regular screening to detect incipient damage prior to serious injury.
- Detection of very early physiological indications of inflammation, stress and potential injury and the cause of niggling problems that keep recurring. (For example early detection of a stressed tendon and/or stress fractures can be detected up to two weeks earlier than by routine clinical examination.)
- Monitoring reaction to treatment of injury and also reaction to post injury training programmes, indicating whether programmes need re-assessing during the return to peak performance.
- Helping diagnosis and locating of injury and can be the best guide as to the most appropriate course of treatment.
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