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One of the "big unknowns" is what the report will say and what it means.
This section should help you understand what to expect:
Your report will
generally have four sections with the
"artefacts" section only inserted if required.
History - A brief description of
your relevant history. Things like, "pain in the left lateral shoulder
for 8 years with no response to physical therapy or cortisone
injections" are the sort of thing that will be in this section.
Artefacts - An artefact is a thing
that will be visible in a thermograph, but is not part of your actual
problem. Artefacts can be almost anything like a necklace that wont come
off to a pimple or a scratch somewhere which is inflamed.
If a person drove in
with their arm hanging in the cold breeze, this can also effect the
quality of a thermograph, and will be noted here. Of course, if there
are no artefacts, this section will not be included.
Clinical Impressions
- This is the part that your therapist or practitioner will be
interested in. Essentially, it is a summary of what the images are
likely to mean in a clinical sense and written in
clinical terms. This is the section that should guide your
practitioner to the trouble spot to help you get rid of your problem.
Comments further to this report -
This is the section where the next best step is recommended.
Recommendations can vary from suggested specific tests right through to
suggestions that a specific form of therapy might help. Sometimes a
combination of therapies is also recommended.
Terms
- What the report means in everyday language. A description which is in
the "Clinical Impressions" section might be, "a vertebro-costal rotation
is noted at the T2-T3 level.....". In the 'Terms' this would be
explained in lay terms with a bit of background as to what the
misalignment (for example) might do, how it happens and what these sorts
of problems best respond to therapeutically. This is the section with
the most relevance for our clients in general.
Please click here to see a PDF format sample report
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