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A pain in the …. Annals

The Annals of Internal Medicine published a review of the evidence of medications for acute and chronic low back pain. These are the clinical practice guidelines for the American Pain Society and American College of Physicians (available here via Pubmed). Laser did not get a recommendation because “no suitable reviews of LLLT were identified”.  It’s worth reading a letter to the editor that strongly criticizes the overview methodology and makes a case for LLLT. click here for the letter to the editor

About James Carroll

THOR Photomedicine Founder and CEO Editor of the "Literature Watch" on PMLS Speaker on dose rate effects of light & NIR radiation Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine Assoc Member Institute of Physics
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