Medical Thermography
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Have you discovered a lump? Have you supported a loved one through cancer treatments? Perhaps you’re proactive about preventing illness and unwanted symptoms. These are common motivations for patients seeking out Thermography.
At Radiant Thermography, our technicians undergo rigorous training and certification through PACT (the Professional Academy of Clinical Thermology) and annual calibration for our state-of -the-art thermal cameras and equipment.
Your technician will expertly guide you through the appointment process, ensuring adherence to detailed protocols before your screening. Our testimonials highlight our professionalism, comfort, and efficiency, both during and after appointments, along with the valuable follow-up education provided.
Begin your holistic health journey with Radiant Thermography to uncover areas in your body that may need attention. Our skilled team will assist you in addressing heat imbalances during the review process and advise you on pertinent questions to ask your physician based on your results.
Visualizing Health:
The Science and Application of Medical Thermography
Medical thermography, also known as digital infrared thermal imaging (DITI), is a non-invasive imaging technique used to detect and visualize changes in skin temperature. It works by capturing infrared radiation emitted from the body’s surface and converting it into a visible image.
The basic principle behind thermography is that changes in blood flow and metabolism often manifest as changes in skin temperature. For instance, areas of inflammation or increased blood flow may appear warmer, while areas with reduced blood flow may appear cooler.
Medical thermography is used in various medical fields, including:
- Breast health: Thermography is used to detect changes in breast tissue temperature that may indicate the presence of abnormal blood vessel patterns associated with breast cancer.
- Pain assessment: Thermography can be used to assess musculoskeletal injuries and chronic pain conditions by visualizing areas of inflammation or abnormal blood flow.
- Vascular health: It can help in assessing vascular disorders by detecting changes in blood flow patterns and temperature distribution.
- Neurology: In some cases, thermography is used in neurology to evaluate conditions such as complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) by assessing temperature differences between affected and unaffected limbs.
- Oral Health: Thermography can assist in detecting potential areas of oral infection or conditions such as temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ) by identifying areas of inflammation in the jaw.
Medical thermography is non-invasive and radiation-free, making it an extremely valuable health assessment tool. However, it’s important to note that while thermography can detect temperature differences, it does not provide a definitive diagnosis on its own. It is often used in conjunction with other diagnostic tests and clinical evaluations to provide a comprehensive assessment of a patient’s condition.
What to expect during your thermography appointment
- Preparation: Once you schedule your appointment, you will receive a confirmation email with new patient intake forms to fill out and protocols to follow. The protocols advise to avoid certain activities that could affect your body temperature, such as vigorous exercise, consuming caffeine, or using lotions or creams on the skin prior to the appointment.
- Arrival: When you arrive for your appointment, you’ll check in with reception and wait for your technician to bring you back to be seen.
- Procedure: Before the thermography scan begins, your technician will explain the procedure to you. You’ll discuss what will happen during the scan and go over your medical history and main concerns.
- Acclimation: Prior to the exam, you’ll acclimate to the temperature in the exam room. You’ll be asked to remove any jewelry, clothing, or items that could interfere with the imaging process.
- Imaging: During the thermography scan, you’ll be positioned in front of the thermography camera or imaging device. The technician will guide you through the process, ensuring that the necessary areas of your body are properly imaged. The imaging itself is painless and non-invasive.
- Post-Imaging: After the imaging is complete, you may resume your normal activities immediately. There’s no downtime or recovery period associated with thermography.
- Results: Your thermography images will be analyzed and interpreted by a team of doctors known as Thermologists. Your results will be ready within 3-5 business days. You will review your results with a doctor and your technician.
- Follow-Up: Your recommendation for your follow up exam will be noted in your report. Your follow up exams are necessary to monitor changes over time and ensure the best preventive healthcare.
The Goal of Thermography
Thermography is a holistic, functional test that monitors abnormal physiology and detects subtle changes associated with breast pathology. The goal of Thermography is to identify physiological changes on the body before structural changes arise. Detecting early warning signs often prompt lifestyle changes which can improve the course of your health, empowering you to take control of well-being. Medical Thermography is an excellent adjunctive screening tool that can enhance clinical assessment and decision making in the development of treatment strategies to meet health and preventive care goals.
Early detection is key!
Use Thermography to monitor and assess your health:
- Cancer screening
- Inflammation
- Toxins
- Hormonal imbalance
- Nerve damage
- Oral health
- Back pain
- Circulation
- Arthritis
- Vein thromboses
- Cardiovascular screening
- Nerve pathology
Radiant Thermography Services Include:
- All Thermography screenings are performed by a PACT Certified Technician using our state of the art thermal camera and equipment. Our Certified Thermography Technicians ensure all protocols are followed before each screening.
- A private, comfortable environment for the screening, such as proper temperature, space and room requirements.
- Fast report turnaround times; 3-5 business days for standard and 2-3 business days for STAT requests.
- Your thermography report includes personalized results written by our expert Thermologists. All reports include images with a rainbow palette to best show your heat in color and inverse grayscale so we can best see your vascular patterns throughout your body.
- Our technicians review your report with your doctor with your written permission if they are new to thermography reporting. If you don’t have a doctor who is interested in learning about the benefits of Medical Thermography, we are happy to give you options of doctors who use Thermography in their practice on a regular basis.
- Review your results with your Technician. Learn about your results in great detail and ask any questions you may have. Our goal is to provide you with suggestions on what you can do to improve your health and your results on your next screening!
Breast Thermography - $299
Performed by a PACT Certified technician.
Includes Interpretation and Report with rainbow (shows heat) and inverse grayscale images (shows vascular patterns ). OR 1 region of the body.
Health Screening - $399
Cerebrovascular, Thyroid, Breast, Abdomen & Back. Performed by a PACT Certified technician. Includes Interpretation & Report with rainbow (shows heat) and inverse grayscale images (shows vascular patterns). Pre-payment plan available.
Full Body Thermography - $599
Approx 30 images. Pre-payment plan available. A portion of every FB Thermography is donated to the United Breast Cancer Foundation. The UBCF.org helps patients afford thermography. Email info@FlowWell.org for more information.
Breast Thermography - $299
Full Body Thermography - $599
Health Screening - $399
Thermography Saves Lives
Many patients come to see us due to a member of their family getting a cancer diagnosis. Statistically, 80% of breast cancer cases do not have any family history. This means everyone should be utilizing Medical Thermography as a preventive screening tool.
Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in their 20’s or 30’s are less likely to survive because there is not a standard screening for this age group in the conventional medicine model. These women often have young children and should not go without being screened due to the Mammogram guidelines that start screening women at age 40.
Thermography is an excellent analysis for people of all ages. Kids under 16 get Thermography at a significantly lower cost. Back in 2014, a technician with BTI started scanning kids in his office and found breast cancer in an 11 year old. Thermography is safe at any age and should be utilized during annual health checks. Our youngest patient is 2 and our oldest patient is 96!
Using Thermography to monitor and improve your health is an excellent tool for your preventive care journey.
DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS?
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Certified Thermography Technicians follow particular protocols for your screening:
The room should be set up correctly (68-72 degrees and no direct sunlight).
Thermography is performed ideally in the nude (thong or jockstrap is ok but not preferred to check the skin everywhere) because clothes and hair hide accurate heat signatures. Privacy screening is used for men.
You will be asked to acclimate for about 10 minutes in a private room without your clothes on to get your skin temperature to a definable level. Your clothing holds a heat signature on your body and we need about 10 minutes for your skin to cool down. This allows for us to take images of your true surface temperatures.
For adults we offer 3 screening types. A Breast scan or 1 region of the body, the Health Screening and the Full Body scan.
Since you use your entire body every single day, it’s ideal to start with a Full Body scan or get one at least once a year. We also recommend a Full Body scan due to all the thermographic findings we see in our patients that you can’t see with the naked eye. Cancer doubles on average every 90 days. You can monitor your entire body safely with thermography.
The Health Screening is from the pubic floor up to the top of the forehead. It excludes the arms, hands, legs and feet. Many opt for this scan to at least check out the surface temperatures over most of your major organs.
If you only want to check on one region of the body, you can do that by signing up for the Breast screening. The most popular single region is the Breast scan but we have also performed head/neck, abdomen, back, arms or legs.
After your screening, we send the images to a team of trained thermologists from PACT to have them interpret the images. When the report is ready, a consultation with a doctor will be scheduled.
After you receive your report back, schedule a review with your physician. A second review will be with a Certified Thermographic Technician. If your doctor isn't familiar with thermography you can set up a consultation with one of our thermologists for a small fee. We connect with many local doctors or doctors who offer telemedicine who use thermography in their practice on a regular basis. We are happy to help your doctor become educated or refer you to a doctor who is already very familiar with reviewing these reports.
During your screening, you’ll be standing in front of the camera and sitting in a chair in 6 - 30 different positions depending on the screening you choose. This takes approximately 10-30 mins. Appointments are 30 minutes to an hour to allow for intake form review, the screening, scheduling a follow up consult, processing the payment and answering all of your questions.
Full body scans or the scan of your choice are usually scheduled from every 3-months to once a year, depending on the results in your last thermography scan. Some findings warrant a follow up in 1 month, or 3 months and many are recommended in 6 months to establish a baseline. Those who look great or improved from their last scan receive a year follow up.
Our report turnaround time is 1-2 weeks. Most of the time we see the reports back in less than 1 week. Sometimes during the year we have busy seasons or some of our interpreting doctors may be called away on an emergency case or have life events come up which can take the return process up to 2 weeks. We offer a STAT service for anyone who has a pressing matter 2-3 business days turn around at no additional cost.
PACT discontinued the use of TH ratings in January 2012. It was found by its investigators to be outdated (c.1979) and in need of improvement. The TH rating system was based on older technology that was less accurate than today's current digital imaging and computer processing. Many of the factors that were identified with the newer imaging devices were that abnormal anatomy vascularity. This increase in factors raised the rating for the patient to be a TH4 or TH 5 in too many cases. Risk factor assessment has been shown to be highly inaccurate. In fact 10% of TH1 patients went on to develop breast cancer.
Prioritize Your Health with Thermography
While some wonder about insurance coverage for thermography screenings, it’s essential to recognize that while coverage may become available in the future, investing in a screening for possible cancer detection, along with learning preventive measures, is an investment in your ultimate well-being now! The cost of not having this screening could significantly outweigh any initial hesitations.
There are numerous ways to save on thermography or even have your scan expenses covered. You can utilize your HSA or FSA cards, take advantage of our generous referral program for your loved ones and colleagues, or explore Aflac’s cancer prevention program.
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Please reach out to our team for any questions or more information about Thermography. We are happy to provide a complimentary Sample Report to showcase our unique and detailed reporting. We use state of the art equipment for your imaging and provide speedy turnaround time for your results. At Radiant, our technicians travel to locations near you for your convenience. If we’re not in your area yet, please let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate your needs.