Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD and CRPS) Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (Complex Regional Pain Syndromes Type I) and Causalgia (Complex Regional Pain Syndromes Type II)(RSD and CRPS)

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Old 07-26-2007, 07:14 AM #1
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Question Thermograms... are they 100% accurate?

Can someone help me here?

Do you know of studies, articles that prove it?

How many of you have had them?

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I've had one - it was accurate and showed I had full body. However, being full body they are slightly less accurate (I didn't have it in my chest at the time so they could compare) but I am far cooler in the extremeties (they are black on thermograms) than I should be etc.

Dunno accuracies

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I had a thermogram way back in 1987. That's really how the RSD was finally diagnosed/confirmed. At the time, it was considered experimental. The insurance company didn't seem to know about RSD or this diagnostic procedure. They denied the claim because it was not "standard treatment for back pain"? (I had RSD in my left foot at the time. Shows how much the claim processors pay attention.)

It was, at that time, considered fairly accurate, but not 100%. It is just one more tool to help MD's figure out what is happening. The test itself is very accurate in measuring therms, but the interpretation can be tricky.

I would think things have gotten even better since the '80s - a little more science and more experience with what it can show. The one thing I remember clearly is that there is absoluteley no pain or discomfort.

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