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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Low Level Laser Therapy LLLT / Cold Laser Literature watch for Feb 2012
Just 9 papers for you this month including LLLT for orthodontic tooth movement, diabetic periodontitis, ischemic stroke and a laboratory study on chronic mild stress to add to the clinical reports we have seen in recent months.
A plug for the 2012 World Association for Laser Therapy conference in Gold Coast Australia in September. You know you have to go to Australia at some time in your life, well this is that time. Not only does Australia have the most extraordinary wilderness, wildlife and waves of anywhere in the world, it is also the host of this year’s WALT conference. I anticipate that most of the researchers you have read about on this newsletter / blog over recent years will be there . At the WALT 2012 conference in September you can see their latest work and hear their latest thoughts first hand. This land of sun, sea and and so many lasers is probably the most welcoming country i have ever visited, so I suggest you click here to register and click … Continue reading
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on Low Level Laser Therapy LLLT / Cold Laser Literature watch for Feb 2012
The truth will set you free, but you might need a political bulldozer
I love introducing LLLT to an audience of doctors oblivious and innocent of its effects on tissue regeneration, inflammation and pain. At first, the response is that no therapy can do all of this (heal diabetic wounds, improve recovery from sports injuries, neck pain, osteoarthritis and neuropathic pain etc), then I explain the mechanism by which LLLT increases ATP and reduces oxidative stress. By the time I have finished, the final question is not “what is LLLT?” or “how does it work?” or “is there clinical evidence?” but “why is this not used everywhere throughout medicine?”.
The truth is that evidence is not enough. I am involved in the early stages of putting together an international multicentre clinical trial for a pathology that already has 14 RCTs behind it. What difference will one more trial make? The difference may not be the trial itself, but the eminence of the doctors / scientists and their institutions doing it. I am also involved in the early stages of fund raising for another trial that has considerably less … Continue reading
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