Women's Gathering-Thermography-Guest Speaker-3/17

[Guest guest]

Below is an event in NYC for women and breast cancer but I am trying to

organize a hands on workshop for both men and women who would like to partake in

non invasive cancer screening using Thermography. The workshop would likely be

held in Saugerties, NY and if you are interested and I can gather enough

people for to travel up to Ulster County then please can you email me?

Thanks,

> Women's Gathering

>

> Special Guest Speaker: Koo

>

> Speaking on the Topic of Thermography

> A Method of Breast Examination

>

> Wednesday, March 17, 2004

> 7:30-9:30pm

>

> Caravan of Dreams Restaurant

> 405 East 6 Street

> between 1st Avenue & Avenue A

> $6 fee

>

> All health conscious ladies are welcome to join our sharing circle to

> discuss women's related issues. Here is your opportunity to talk about your

> personal issues, and questions that you may otherwise not feel comfortable

talking

> about at our usual support group.

>

> Koo will speak and answer your questions about Thermography.

> Thermography is a non-invasive method of Breast Examination.

>

> has had a career in medical and holistic education, and has a degree

> in Oriental Medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. She

> currently works at the Metropolitan Wellness Group using holistic approaches

to

> healing with state of the art diagnostic tools like Digital Infrared Thermal

> Imaging, Electrodermal Screening, and Heart Rate Variability Testing, with

> traditional Chinese Pulse and Tongue Diagnosis.

>

> Here is some information about Thermography...

>

>

> Thermography

> INTRODUCTION

> The body produces heat which must be lost to the environment. The interface

> between this heat production and the environment is the skin so the body

> depends on heat transfer from the skin for thermoregulation.

>

> The skin is a dynamic organ which under the control of the sympathetics is

> constantly adjusting to balance internal and external temperature conditions.

>

> Thermal imaging is the most efficient technique for the study of skin

> temperature distribution. By measuring bi-lateral anatomical sites and

identifying

> significant changes thermal imaging is an objective non-invasive diagnostic

> modality.

>

> Thermal Imaging is particularly useful for the monitoring of treatment,

> whether surgical, physical or pharmacologic.

>

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>

> The Role of Thermography in Breast Screening

> Thermography - is a non-invasive, diagnostic imaging procedure involving the

> detection and recording of cutaneous thermal patterns using instruments

> which can provide visual and quantitative documentation of these temperature

> measurements. Because thermography detects pathophysiologic changes in

cutaneous

> temperature, it may be used as an integral part of the physical examination

> or, alternatively, as an adjunct to that examination.

> The interpretation of these temperatures and thermal patterns can be

> important in the development of a diagnostic impression.

>

> Thermography is appropriate and germane to any healthcare practice whenever

> the treating professional feels a physiological imaging test is needed for

> diagnosis or case management. It provides information about acute as well as

> chronic conditions and can be useful in distinguishing aggravated from

residual

> tissue injury. Thermography is an imaging technology which provides

> information on, the normal and abnormal functioning of the sensory and

sympathetic

> nervous systems, vascular dysfunction, myofascial trauma and local

inflammatory

> processes. It may contribute to a diagnosis and case management by aiding in

> the determination of the site and degree of lesion, the type of functional

> disorder and the prognosis for treatment outcomes, as well as assisting in the

> determination of the most effective course of treatment through continual

> case evaluation.

>

> Thermography is a safe and effective means for evaluation of vasomotor

> instability due to irritation or injury of spinal roots, nerves or sympathetic

> fibers. It is to be considered an adjunctive test and not solely diagnostic

> except in cases of reflex sympathetic dystrophy. While one cannot extend the

> technique of thermography to indicate the central phenomena of perception of

> pain, it is useful in detecting associated 'vasomotor instability and complex

> pain states associated with arthritis, soft tissue injuries, low back disease

or

> reflex sympathetic dystrophy and does provide objective data to identify

> dysfunction in roots that are irritated in the spine, peripheral nerves that

are

> irritated and damage to the sympathetic nervous system.

> The diagnosis of neurological and musculoskeletal abnormalities by

> thermography is based on associated thermal asymmetry between normal and

abnormal

> sites, a change in normal temperature gradients in limbs or between medial and

> lateral digits, or a disturbance of the normal physiological temperature

> distribution pattern.

>

> Thermography may be regarded as one piece of information that must be

> integrated with other available information in the clinician's decision making

> process. Thermography cannot be used as a measurement of pain.

>

> Physiological Basis

> When conditions of the vascular arterial, venous, and lymph, and the skin

> conditions are normal, then the major control and regulation of the dermal

> circulation is neurovascular. The neurovascular control of the skin is the

> sympathetic nervous system. The components of this sympathetic response,

however,

> are both adrenogenic and cholinergic.

>

> The adrenogenic portion produces vasoconstriction and the cholinergic

> portion produces vasodilation in the cutaneous microcirculation. Regulation of

this

> cutaneous circulation is from the embryonic anterior neural ridge, which

> produces the sympathetic paravertebral ganglion. The postganglionic fibres

> connect with each and every organ of the body as well as to the skin. When the

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> pairs of peripheral nerves are established, their content is anywhere from 8

> to 35 percent unmyelinated fibres, which are of the sympathetic afferent or

> efferent function. These fibres are responsible for the control of this dermal

> microcirculation. Each of the spinal nerves has a dorsal and ventral

> division, and the cutaneous territory of a given peripheral nerve is ascribed

by

> these divisions with their subsequent distal divisions. The ventral division

of

> a peripheral nerve having a lateral division, as well as an anterior

> division, with its subsequent control over a designated territory. Skin

territorial

> blood flow control is by way of these peripheral nerve conduits carrying the

> unmyelinated postganglionic fibres to the neurovascular receptors in the skin.

>

> Blood flow allows core temperature to come to the surface or not, and will

> change the temperature of the skin territorially. Each area of the body has a

> particular cutaneous-cordal connection by the sympathetic nervous system. The

> alteration of the thermal content of a territory occurs based upon

> alterations of this nervous control. Only the dermal blood flow changes

explain the

> heat seen on the surface of the body. The heat of a muscle, joint, or a bone

is

> not conducted to the dermal tissues and cannot influence the dermal

> temperature recorded by thermography. Conduction of heat from the deeper

portions of

> the body to the surface does not occur or create changes in the surface

> temperature. However, there are neurochemical processes in the dermis which

can

> block the normal sympathetic control of blood flow in the skin, such as

> histamines, prostaglandins, and myovascular receptor inhibitors of mast cells.

> These, however, can be easily differentiated from neural control by clinical

> correlation.

>

> Areas of the surface of the body are recorded as symmetrical. The frontal

> areas, the thumbs, the great toes, the knees, the buttocks, the posterior

> shoulders should be contra laterally symmetrical and isothermic. If there is a

> difference, it is described as a delta T and means simply the difference in

> temperature. In order to interpret thermographic patterns, one must know the

> normal pattern. The normal pattern of the skin surface is symmetrical, and it

is

> thought that the 95 percentile range in the normal subject deviates less than

> 0.3° C. Uematsu and others have established the normal patterns of the human

> surface temperature.

>

> Relationships of various areas one to another must be learned. The hands are

> usually colder than the shoulders. The buttocks and the feet are the coldest

> in the lower body, followed by the anterior knees. The thenar side of a

> given hand is usually warmer than the hypothenar, and the fingers are cooler

than

> the palm.

>

> It has been shown that the surface temperature of the human body is

> symmetrical. It is a reflection of blood flow in the dermal microcirculation,

and the

> control of this microcirculation is autonomic and specifically, sympathetic.

> The major basis of clinical thermography is the correlation of temperature

> recordings with various conditions from disease and injury as it relates to

> autonomic function.

> Positive Thermogram

> Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) is available through RENEE KOO in

> New York City. (917)449-9272 both at Metropolitan Welless Group and Grand

> Meridian clinic. Images of the appropriate areas of the body are taken and

sent to

> a team of specialist Thermologists in the USA. The images are analyzed and a

> full report is written and returned to the patient.

> Koo

> Tel: (212) 436-4676

> Fax: (212) 653-2223

> Email: rkoo79@...

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