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The tests were carried out with 44 participants who performed a repetitive task for 10 min and integrated into two groups, of which 22 were trained workers from a maquiladora company and were analyzed with sensory thermography, and the other 22 were in the laboratory with infrared thermography with undergraduate students. The study area is the left and right hand, specifically the wrists. The proposed hypothesis is that people with some musculoskeletal problems have a decrease in temperature when starting repetitive tasks and thermal asymmetries, which measurements were recorded at 0, 10, 15, and 20 min after the task was finished. Findings indicate that the temperatures in both wrists behave similarly. The workers reached higher temperatures, and the centigrade degrees of asymmetry difference were also higher. The variable with influence on the temperature was fractured in the arm. After thermally analyzing the temperature behavior between the wrists of both hands, it is concluded that there is an increase in temperature after finishing a repetitive task, and it does not stabilize after 20 min. Both thermography methods observed that the asymmetries are greater than 0.5 \u00b0C, detecting the possible pathology of carpal tunnel syndrome.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph191610240","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,17]],"date-time":"2022-08-17T22:53:30Z","timestamp":1660776810000},"page":"10240","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Temperature Asymmetry Analysis between Left and Right Wrist with Sensory and Infrared Thermography"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Alejandra","family":"Garc\u00eda Becerra","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Engineering, Tecnol\u00f3gico Nacional de M\u00e9xico\/IT Ciudad Guzm\u00e1n, Ciudad Guzman 49100, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6205-0973","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jes\u00fas Everardo","family":"Olgu\u00edn Tiznado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Design, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Baja California, Ensenada 22860, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7092-6963","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jorge Luis","family":"Garc\u00eda Alcaraz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez 32310, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Claudia","family":"Camargo Wilson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Design, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Baja California, Ensenada 22860, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5477-033X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juan Andr\u00e9s","family":"L\u00f3pez Barreras","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana 22390, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7803-6706","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Julio Cesar","family":"Cano Guti\u00e9rrez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Design, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Baja California, Ensenada 22860, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3114-4114","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rosa Blanca","family":"Garcia-Rivera","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Administrative and Social Sciences, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Baja California, Ensenada 22890, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"189","DOI":"10.1088\/0967-3334\/35\/2\/189","article-title":"Measuring skin temperature before, during and after exercise: A comparison of thermocouples and infrared thermography","volume":"35","author":"Brito","year":"2014","journal-title":"Physiol. 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