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Acupuncture Congress 2018
Herbal Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2472-0151
Page 67
August 20-21, 2018
Dublin, Ireland
9
th
International Conference on
Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine
T
he body temperaure is a natural indicator of human condition,
that is why temperature measurment is the most common
test performed in Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine.
Abnormal skin temperature is a sign of illness. Temperature
imbalance could be caused by blood stagnation, vasoconstriction
and inflammatory states. Each treatment should be focused on
elimination of this imbalance. The whole process of healing can
be monitored by infrared imaging medical thermography. Medical
thermography is a fast, passive, non-contact and non-invasive
method of exemplifying body temperature. This method gives
possibilities to track all temperature changes which are caused
by treatment such as acupuncture. Acupuncture cause immune
response and vasodilatation of the treated area which is visible
as the temperature increase. That is why whole process could be
perfectlymonitored by thermography. The best monitoring effects
are visible with the usage of distal acupuncture. This method
does not implement additional distribution during imaging
because needles are inserted in distal areas. The keynote of this
speech will focus on lower limbs treatment monitored by thermal
imaging. It will trace the process of healing and advantages of
needling and thermography fusion.
Thermography as a method to monitor effects of acupuncture
treatment
Michał Urgacz
Thermo Medica, Poland
Herb Med. 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-003