Digatherm

We are proud to have the only medical DIGATHERM – digital thermal imaging system in south Alabama. This new technology enables us to identify the location of inflammation in its earliest stages – before it becomes a cause of lameness or significant tissue damage. All of our canine rehabilitation and conditioning patients are scanned. If areas of inflammation are found, a report is sent to the primary veterinarian so the dog can return for further imaging evaluation.

The science of thermal imaging is basic: all bodies emit heat and the amount of heat (the specific degrees) is recorded as an image. It is accepted that normal animals, humans included, are thermally symmetric, so identifiable variation points to a problem.

Thermal imaging records body function instead of only structure like most medical imaging: x-ray, ultrasound, MRI… Once abnormal function is identified, we know exactly where to look for the underlying structural issue.