Thermography is used as much in veterinary medicine as it is in allopathic medicine. Studies using thermography as a diagnostic tool are numerous. Thermography is used in small animal medicine as well as equine and large animal practice. In these animals, the coccygeal muscle was injured traumatically. Thermography was used to help diagnose the problem.
Thermography has broad applications in medicine and dentistry.
Dentists have been using thermography to assess facial pain, TMJ conditions, implants, root canals, facial nerve injuries and other conditions. Neuropathic facial pains are still too often misdiagnosed as tooth pain of dental origin, resulting in unnecessary dental extraction or endodontic therapy. Computer measurements made using facial thermography were able to distinguish normal patient populations from symptomatic patients with acute TMJ pain. It has been shown to be an effective way to monitor near-surface blood flow in the limbs of RSD patients and to be sensitive to changes accompanying painful conditions. An article that appeared in the Journal of Pain described using IRT to analyze sympathetic vasoconstriction in CRPS patients.