Use of Body Surface Heat Patterns for Predicting and Evaluating Acute LowerExtremity Pain Among Soldiers

摘要

This project determined (a) that neither thermographs or podoscopes can be usedto predict which basic trainees are likely to develop significant lower limb pain during training, (b) that thermography is not clinically useful in tracking changes in training related lower limb pain, (c) that contact thermographs are not useful in the TMC environment due to their inaccuracy, that videothermographs are too cumbersome and expensive to use relative to the information provided in the TMC environment, but that infrared beam thermometers are valuable adjuncts to assessment and tracking, (d) that having trainees wear shock absorbing inserts throughout basic training does not reduce the incidence and severity of lower limb pain, and (e) that training related stress fractures probably do heal faster when exposed to pulsing electromagnetic fields.