There are a
number of books which relate to the area of phototherapy and so
before looking through the research references below please browse
through the selection of books listed which can be ordered from
Amazon. Put in my own titles and then write up a collection which
is referenced of all the resources and then publish.
Chronic
Neck Pain
Low Level Laser
Therapy (LLLT) review of chronic neck pain published in The Lancet,
clinical study published in The Journal of Pain and acknowledged
in lastest consensus state by The World Health Organisation: Bone
and Joint Task Force
The Lancet report
declares that neck pain is approaching epidemic proportions with
10 - 24% of the population affected. Health economic reports from
USA and European Union state that musculoskeletal injury and disease
costs €240 Billion / €194 Billion annually. The paper
also reports that pharmacological therapies for neck pain are widely
used but have "not shown any conclusive evidence of benefit"
The BMJ agrees "There isn't any specific research that shows
drugs help neck pain". There is now more evidence for the use
of laser for neck pain than any other medical procedure. The Lancet
report says "(Relief using) Laser for neck pain lasted for
up to 22 weeks.Trials of LLLT for knee osteoarthritis tendinopathies
and low back pain reported similar results". "This contrasts
with drug therapies where the effect ends rapidly when treatment
is discontinued."
BRIEF
SUMMARY OF LASER STUDIES REVIEWED FOR THE LANCET:
16 RCT's of acceptable methodological quality
Mean duration of symptoms 7.5 years +/-36.9months
Mean baseline of pain intensity 56.9mm +/-7.5mm
RESULTS:
Reduce pain intensity
Reduced disability
Reduces recurrence of acute neck pain
Mean Pain intensity reduction over placebo 20mm (95%CI: 17.1 to
29.8 @ 10-22 weeks)
COMMENT:
This establishes LLLT as an evidence based treatment for neck pain.
It is at least equivalent to and probably better than other accepted
medical treatments for neck pain read
more on Pub Med.gov
Br J Sports
Med. 2010 Jul 20
Frozen
shoulder: the effectiveness of conservative and surgical interventionssystematic
review.
Favejee MM,
Huisstede BM, Koes BW.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus University Medical
Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Background A variety of therapeutic interventions is available for
restoring motion and diminishing pain in patients with frozen shoulder.
An overview article concerning the evidence for the effectiveness
of these interventions is lacking. Objective To provide an evidence-based
overview regarding the effectiveness of conservative and surgical
interventions to treat the frozen shoulder. Methods The Cochrane
Library, PubMed, Embase, Cinahl and Pedro were searched for relevant
systematic reviews and randomised clinical trials (RCTs). Two reviewers
independently selected relevant studies, assessed the methodological
quality and extracted data. A best-evidence synthesis was used to
summarise the results. Results Five Cochrane reviews and 18 RCTs
were included studying the effectiveness of oral medication, injection
therapy, physiotherapy, acupuncture, arthrographic distension and
suprascapular nerve block (SSNB). Conclusions We found strong evidence
for the effectiveness of steroid injections and laser therapy in
short-term and moderate evidence for steroid injections in mid-term
follow-up. Moderate evidence was found in favour of mobilisation
techniques in the short and long term, for the effectiveness of
arthrographic distension alone and as an addition to active physiotherapy
in the short term, for the effectiveness of oral steroids compared
with no treatment or placebo in the short term, and for the effectiveness
of SSNB compared with acupuncture, placebo or steroid injections.
For other commonly used interventions no or only limited evidence
of effectiveness was found. Most of the included studies reported
short-term results, whereas symptoms of frozen shoulder may last
up to 4 years. High quality RCTs studying long-term results are
clearly needed in this field.
read
more on Pub Med.gov
International
Association for Study of Pain finds strong evidence
for LLLT
A guidance document
on myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) published on the International
Association for Study of Pain web site finds strong evidence
for Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT). read
more Myofascial pain syndrome is often confused with fibromyalgia
so it may be worth reading this
blog to help understand the difference.
Acne
An action spectrum
for blue and near ultraviolet inactivation of Propionibacterium
acnues; with emphasis on a possible porphrin photosensitisation.
Kjeldstad B, Jhonsson. Photochemistry-Photobiology 1986: 43(1);
67-70
Singlet oxygen
(1 delta g) generation from coproporphyrin in Propionbacterium acnes
on irradiation. Arakane K, Ryu A, Hayashi C, Masunaga T, Scinmoto
K, Mashiko S, Nagano T, Hirobe M.
Effect of Visible
Light on Reactive Oxygen Species Production
R. Lubart, H.
Friedman, R. Lavie, N. Grossman. M. Sinyakov and S. Belotsky. Dept
of Chemistry and Physics, Dept of Life Sciences Bar'Ilan University,
Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
Visible light
promotes proliferation of normal skin cells. Grossman, N., Reuveni,
H., Halevy, S., Lubart, R.,; J. INvest. Dermatol., 102649A (1994)
Improvement
of rhelogic parameters, ligand- and oxygen -binding capacity of
erthrocytes of circulating blood after exposure of the body surface
of visible polarized light. K.A. Samoilova, K.D. Obolenskaya, A.V.Vologdina,
N.V. Mineeva, N.Yu Romanenko, M.F. Balljuzek: Published 8th Congress
of European Society of Photobiology. Book of Abstracts, P/106, p.145,
Granada (1999)
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