Thermography uses an infrared camera to graphically illustrate skin temperature by way of a color image. On the image, degrees of heat appear as different colors. Your skin temperature is affected primarily by blood flow. Standard diagnostic tests such as mammograms, x-rays, MRI’s, ultrasounds and CAT scans are designed to test your anatomy.

By contrast, thermography tests for physiological change and metabolic processes. It measures the amount of body heat delivered to your skin through cellular metabolism and your nervous system.

From the Outside In: Your Skin Temperature As a Measure of Your Health
Each area of your skin is connected to internal organs through a neural reflex arc via the spinal cord. That’s how serious underlying disease often signals its presence — in the form of skin tenderness and sensitivity to touch.  For example, if you have heart disease, you’re apt to feel sensitivity on the skin of your neck, left arm and left chest wall.  If your appendix is inflamed or diseased, you’ll feel skin tenderness over the site of that organ, among other symptoms. The regulatory pattern of your skin reflects the condition of the corresponding internal organ.

Your skin temperature patterns are indicators of metabolic activity in different parts of your body. Disturbances in your body’s metabolic processes appear via thermal imaging as areas of inflammation, degeneration and/or blockage. Left untreated, these metabolic and cellular stresses often show up in the form of anatomical damage years later.

Pain Free, Risk Free Testing
Thermography scans are absolutely painless and risk-free. They involve no compression of tissue, are non-invasive, and emit no radiation. The technology is cost effective  and provides instant images of scanned areas of your body. A scan of a targeted region takes about 15 minutes and a full body scan runs about 30 minutes.

What to Expect During a Thermal Imaging Session

1. You will be placed in a climate-controlled room to allow your body to cool from any external conditions.

2. Next you’ll be placed in front of a thermal imaging camera while the technician takes digital pictures. (You’ll be able to see your body – in living color – on the computer screen during this part of the session.)

3. Your pictures will be read by a certified thermography clinician who will analyze both the amount of heat and the symmetry of the heat patterns your body generates. (This process will take a few days or weeks.)

4. Your doctor or other healthcare specialist will sit down with you to review the report of findings resulting from your thermography scan. Together you will determine next steps, which may include a personal consultation about ways in which to reduce inflammation.  Thermal imaging sessions are quick, non-invasive, entirely painless, and risk free. There is no need for ‘test anxiety’ at any point leading up to or during your thermography session.