For example, when organs or tissues are inflamed, vessels naturally dilate as a result of the inflammatory ‘heat’. As a result, when a tissue is inflamed in the body, even when the person is chilled, the reflexive point corresponding to that organ on the surface of the skin (on the same dermatome) will warm. If the tissue has progressed beyond inflammation to a more chronic or degenerated state, the response to cooling might not occur at all, indicating a blocked or dysfunctional capacity to self-regulate.
Significant insight is given about the body’s capacity for homeostasis by measuring the surface skin temperatures at 120 points with the AlfaSight’s non-invasive infrared sensor. Measurements are taken both before and after a brief “cooling period”, providing data that can be used to assess physiological health when graphed and analyzed compared to thousands of patient controls.
The brief (10-minute) cooling period serves as a time for the body to experience and thus respond to a slight ‘stress’. This response to stress is the “regulation” in the “Regulation Thermography”; it is exactly this capacity for self-regulation that indicates whether there is functional health and normal physiology in a particular area-or not. During the thermography evaluation you will be in a temperature-monitored room with a healthcare practitioner or other qualified technician who will be performing the test. Female patients will have either a female practitioner or a female patient support staff who will act as a chaperone due to the sensitive nature of the evaluation.