General Terminology
| Anesthesia |
the total lack or loss of sensation |
| Anterior |
towards the front of the body |
| Asymptomatic |
describes a person who is free of pain or symptoms |
| Atypical |
NOT as would be typically expected |
| ClinicalCorrelation |
a doctor factoring in and considering specific results into a case |
| CNS |
Central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) |
| Contralateral |
the opposite comparable side |
| Dermatome |
surface areas of the skin that are specific to different spinal segments |
| Dysfunction |
abnormality in the function of the body |
| EMG |
Electromyogram |
| Hyper |
greater or more than normal |
| Hyperthermia |
greater temperature |
| Hypesthesia |
decrease dsensation |
| Hypo |
lesser or less than normal |
| Hypothermia |
lesser temperature |
| Indication |
the reason for performing the test or procedure |
| Inferior |
below |
| Inflammation |
a defence response by the body producing swelling, redness, and heat due to increased blood flow to the affected area |
| Infrared |
rays of energy beyond the limit of human vision, but below there end of the spectrum |
| Ipsilateral |
the response in the body occurring on the same side |
| Ischemia |
local loss of blood supply and resulting pain,which may be caused by a build up of metabolic by products |
| Lateral |
further away from the id line of the body |
| Lordosis |
an abnormal curvation of the spine |
| Lumbar |
area of the spinal cord located in the lower back region |
| Medial |
closer to the id line of the body |
| Myofascialpain |
results from as of ttissue injury with patient complaints of muscle spasm and stiffness in the affected area |
| Myofascitis |
inflammation of fascial of a muscle |
| Myopathy |
involves diseases of the muscles |
| Neovascularity |
new blood vessels |
| Neurogenic |
refers to problems that arise from the neural tissue |
| Neuropathy |
involves diseases of the nerves |
| Paresthesia |
is the perversion of sensation |
| Peripheralnervoussystem |
the part of the nervous system that courses through out the body and connects the various structures and organs of the body with the central nervous system |
| Physiology |
the function of the body |
| Posterior |
towards the back of the body |
| Spondylogenic |
refers to a problem that arises from the spinal column or spinal structure |
| Stresstesting |
the recreation of the movements which cause a patient pain, followed by the performance of a thermographic examination |
| Superior |
above |
| Symptoms |
those elements which a patient complains of or reports |
| ThermalAsymmetry |
temperature differences between comparable areas |
| Thermatome |
indicates segmental thermal patterns in the extremities |
| Thermo |
pertaining to temperature |
| Thermogram |
is the pictorial representation of the surface temperature of the body |
| Thermography |
is the science of visually measuring and recording surface temperature |
| Thermologist |
is a physician who interprets the thermogram |
| Thoracicregion |
the spinal area located in the upper back |
| Triggerpoint |
a small circumscribed pain sensitive regionin muscles or supportive tissue (fascia) |
| Typical |
as would be expected |
| Vascular |
something that pertains to blood vessels |
| Vasoconstriction |
is when the arteries in the more distant parts of the body are caused to go into construction, causing reduce darterial blood flow |
| Viscerogenic |
referred pain from the abdomen, pelvis orthoracic region |
