Medical thermography is a powerful tool for the study of surface temperature of the human body. It is non-invasive, non-radiation, painless and non-contact imaging technique with numerous medical applications including musculoskeletal system, its disorders and injuries. Oft en it is useful to cross-reference the resulting thermograms with visual images of the body; either to see which part of the musculoskeletal system is aff ected by a certain disease or injury or to judge the effi cacy of the treatment. Presented paper deals with application of the thermal imaging to measure lower extremities surface temperature distribution in 20 healthy individuals. Th e aim was to assess the proper technical way of the measurement. Th e aim of this paper deals with musculoskeletal applications of thermal imaging in order to measure lower extremities surface temperature distribution. Over thirty years of clinical use and more than 8,000 peer-reviewed studies in the medical literature have established thermography as a safe and eff ective means to examine the human body. Infrared thermography is a diagnostic procedure that can objectively visualizes the status of muscle, in musculoskeletal disease, as myofascial pain syndrome.

Technical University of Kosice Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering Automation and Measurement Košice

The third Biomedical Engineering Conference of Young Biomedical Engineers and Researchers, July 8-10, 2008 Ostrava, The Czech Republic

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