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Detection of carpal tunnel syndrome by infrared thermography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2014

X. Maxel ,
J. L. Bodnar  and
L. Stubbe
X. Maxel
Affiliation:
Ecole Supérieure d’Ostéopathie - Département de la Recherche, Cité Descartes, 8 rue Alfred Nobel, 77420 Champs sur Marne, France GRESPI/ECATHERM UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles Campus du Moulin de la Housse, BP 1039, 51687 Reims Cedex 2, France
J. L. Bodnar*
Affiliation:
GRESPI/ECATHERM UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles Campus du Moulin de la Housse, BP 1039, 51687 Reims Cedex 2, France
L. Stubbe
Affiliation:
Ecole Supérieure d’Ostéopathie - Département de la Recherche, Cité Descartes, 8 rue Alfred Nobel, 77420 Champs sur Marne, France
*
a Corresponding author: jl.bodnar@univ-reims.fr
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Abstract

The aim of this study is to approach the possibilities of stimulated infrared thermography to the carpal tunnel syndrome diagnosis. Eleven patients were studied. Six of them were affected by the carpal tunnel syndrome. The five others were healthy. The study consists in exciting the patients’ hands and in analyzing their thermal response. The infrared thermograms obtained show that the hands infected by the carpal tunnel syndrome give a different thermal response.

Keywords

Carpal tunnel syndromediagnosisstimulated infrared thermographynon-destructive testingmedian nerve
Type
Research Article
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Mechanics & Industry , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , 2014 , pp. 363 - 370
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© AFM, EDP Sciences 2014

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