Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Bottom Line – Your phototherapy is not the same as mine

Posted on 9 January 2012 by James Carroll

Lilach wrote to me this morning (if you are a regular at LLLT conferences you will know her) and in the dialogue she referred to the “phototherapy community”. I had just downloaded 121 LLLT and other phototherapy papers for this monthly literature watch blog. I had to wade through 99 papers that were not LLLT in order to arrive at 22 that were. Many of those were phototherapy and I thought I should bring them to your attention:

Phototherapy for Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
Phototherapy for Psoriasis and vitiligo (and many other skin problems)
Phototherapy for Seasonal Effective Disorder or depression
Phototherapy for Vitamin D deficiency
Phototherapy for jet lag and sleep disorders

and to a greater or lesser degree these are already somewhat accepted in mainstream medicine.

Why is it that, and why is LLLT not yet accepted ?

send me a short comment back below.

One word answers are acceptable.

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Low Level Laser Therapy LLLT / Cold Laser Literature watch for Dec 2011

Posted on 9 January 2012 by James Carroll

22 new papers for your review: RCT on OA knee; systematic review of treatment modalities for neurosensory deficit after lower third molar surgery found LLLT to provide significant improvement; review of transcranial LLLT for neurodegenerative diseases, laser biomodulation of normal and neoplastic cells (another comprehensive study by Farouk Al-Watban with very interesting results); Laser vs LED study on skin flap viability, angiogenesis and mast cells (spoiler alert, LED wins); treatment of dermatitis in 10 koi carp with 980nm laser!; and yet another case of LLLT for burning mouth syndrome.

As it happens, a customer wrote just a minute ago to say that his patient had rapid resolution of burning mouth that lasted 18 hours after the first LED treatment.

Efficacy of low level laser therapy associated with exercises in knee osteoarthritis: a randomized double-blind study.

Alfredo PP, Bjordal JM, Dreyer SH, Meneses SR, Zaguetti G, Ovanessian V, Fukuda TY, Junior WS, Martins RA, Casarotto RA, Marques AP

Department of Speech Therapy, Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy, School of Medicine, Sao Paulo … Continue reading →

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