Title :
Assessment of piano-related injuries using infrared imaging
Author :
Mohamed, Safaa ; Frize, Monique ; Com, Gilles
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada
fDate :
Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011
Abstract :
Playing the piano is a repetitive task that involves the use of the hands and the arms. Pain related to piano-playing can result in extending the tissues and ligaments of the hands and arms beyond their mechanical tolerance. Infrared imaging records the skin temperature and produces a thermal map of the imaged body part; small variations in the skin temperature could be a sign of inflammation or stress of the tissues. In this paper, we used statistical analysis to examine the difference in hand and arm temperatures of pianists with pain and pianists without pain related to piano-playing. We found that there is a statistically significant difference in hand temperatures between the two populations, but not in the lower arm and upper arm temperatures.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; infrared imaging; injuries; skin; statistical analysis; arm temperature; hand temperature; imaged body part; infrared imaging; ligaments; mechanical tolerance; piano-related injuries; skin temperature; statistical analysis; stress; thermal map; tissue inflammation; Analysis of variance; Infrared imaging; Muscles; Pain; Radio access networks; Temperature measurement; Adult; Aged; Cumulative Trauma Disorders; Female; Hand Injuries; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Infrared Rays; Male; Middle Aged; Music; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Skin Temperature; Thermography; Young Adult;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4121-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091214