Total body infrared imaging and postural disorders

Agonist-antagonist and contralateral musculatures of lower extremities, abdomen, pelvis, trunk, and back, co-work to maintain unaware antalgic orthostatic positions caused by postural disorders. Such positions involve a different activity of the several muscular groups. This results in their different working loads and metabolic rates, which may produce specific skin temperature patterns. In this study, comparison of total body infrared imaging and clinical-orthopedic findings was attempted on 150 subjects, to individualise antalgic orthostatic positions due to postural disorders and their effects on the skin temperature distributions. Total body infrared imaging detected specific disorder-related thermal patterns and provided functional information on the adaptation of the agonist-antagonist and contralateral musculature to the specific disorder.