Personalized thermal treatment protocols

A system for the automated planning of the thermal treatment of an individual or a part thereof with individual-specific consideration, the system comprising

• a thermal treatment protocol database which stores one or more standard thermal treatment protocols;
• said standard thermal treatment protocols being generic thermal treatment protocols in function of medical knowledge collected from literature converted into a thermal treatment protocol, preferably based on for instance the anatomical region to be treated, the structure, the recovery phase, the depth of the injury, the level on severity of the injury or a combination thereof;
• one or more processors programmed to receive a plurality of individual-specific parameters of said individual or a part thereof;
• and information about the required thermal treatment for said individual or a part thereof;
• said one or more processors being operable to apply to a standard thermal treatment protocol the individual-specific parameters thereby adjusting parameters of said standard thermal treatment protocol such as the duration, number of intervals and/or intensity of the standard thermal treatment protocol and generating an adjusted thermal treatment protocol as the personalized protocol for the thermal treatment of said individual or a part thereof;
• and;
• said one or more processors being operable to display the personalized protocol for the thermal treatment of said individual.