PHOTON IRRADIATION HUMAN PAIN TREATMENT MONITORED BY THERMAL IMAGING

摘要

Photo illumination of sites along a nerve supplying a painful region is conducted one at a time (25) until a thermal image (27) of that region or one related to it shows a significant change in temperature, at which time treatment is terminated (29). If it is an extremity (hand or foot) that has pain symptoms, one extremity is treated by exposing its nerve sites to photo illumination while the other extremity is observed by a thermograph instrument (17). Use of the thermal image (19) as a feedback technique allows the treatment to be terminated as soon as the favorable temperature change takes place.