THERMOGRAPHY IN THE ANALYSIS OF PHYSIOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH BRAIN DAMAGE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Keywords:
brain damage, stroke, thermography, Physiotherapy.Abstract
Introduction: objectifying physiotherapeutic procedures in the neurological field is essential to focus on long-term treatment. For this purpose, thermography could be a useful tool for this task, since it is capable of showing physiological changes at the muscular level after physiotherapeutic treatment. Objective: to observe and discuss the thermographic changes after the application of different physiotherapy techniques in pathologies related to brain da-mage. Material and method: a systematic review was carried out according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) standards in the main electronic databases, the last search being carried out on February 13th, 2022. All articles of the type of CT, ACT, CCT carried out in humans on thermography and physiotherapeutic treatment in patients with brain damage. Results: 4 articles were selected to respond to the proposed objective. Despite the lack of homogeneity in the studies analyzed, in all of them thermography was used as a tool to assess the physiological changes after Physiotherapy treatment in patients with brain damage at the level of the upper, lower and trunk extremities. Conclusions: the results analyzed suggest that thermography could be a valid tool for monitoring and evaluating neurorehabilitation treatment, but scarce evidence in quantitative terms and moderate in qualitative terms suggest that more research is needed to clarify the real role of this technique in this clinical setting.
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