http://blog.thorlaser.com Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) news Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:02:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The BMJ "Editors Choice" headline this week was "Key opinion leaders, your time is up". The editor Fiona Godlee asked "Why is it considered normal for medical leaders to accept personal payment for promoting a company’s drug or device?" She was referring to the BMJ article "Drug Marketing" which interviews ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/06/22/are-the-bbc-drug-pushers/ Here is another systematic review of from the Norwegian, Brazilian, British and Greek stable. A systematic review with procedural assessments and meta-analysis of Low Level Laser Therapy in lateral elbow tendinopathy (tennis elbow)  As  usual it finds that less power density is more effective (less power density, but more time) for ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/06/07/elbow-room-for-improvement/ 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 ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/06/07/a-pain-in-the-annals/ For decades the Cold Laser / LLLT pioneers have preached to each-other about their work and published in LLLT dedicated journals. It is nice to see more LLLT being reported in other medical journals and in the main stream press. In my bi-monthly Literature Review for PMLS 30 papers were ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/05/15/reuters-health/ Not much I can add to this other than it is his second award this year from an orthopaedic conference for best paper. Fra: Jan Magnus Bjordal Sendt: lø 12.04.2008 11:37 Til: Roberta Chow; Rodrigo Alvaro B. Lopes Martins; M.Johnson Emne: SV: SV: Your Submission to The Lancet Dear all Our neck pain review with laser ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/05/05/top-prize-for-laser-paper/ At the NZ2008 laser meeting last week we debated the nomenclature surrounding the popularly named "Cold Laser Therapy" as it seems most often called in the USA. In the UK the most common phrase now is Laser Therapy though for a while it was Laser Biostimulation, US government employed scientists ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/05/05/cold-laser-watts-in-a-name/ I was shocked when I heard that Phil Passy died unexpectedly 22nd February 2008. Phil was Founder, President and CEO of MedX Health and a fellow industry pioneer. I first met Phil in the year 2000 in Athens, Greece at the World Association for Laser Therapy meeting when he boldly ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/03/27/phil-passey-founder-of-medx-health-dies/ Cell signalling governs basic cellular activities and coordinates cell actions. Cells respond to their local microenvironment and these signals may prompt tissue repair or immune response as well as normal tissue homeostasis. Guenter Albrecht-Buehler has conducted a series of experiments on cells with near-infrared light (NIR) and ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/03/24/realtime-video-of-cellular-responsed-to-pulsed-near-infrared-light/ It's not new, but it is clever. The American Society for Photobiology Kendric Smith makes the case for academics improving their knowledge of photobiological fundamentals. Laser and LED Therapy is Phototherapy All too frequently the people in the laser [and light emitting diode (LED)] phototherapy field are untrained in the basics ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/03/24/oh-no-not-another-lllt-society/ There has been nothing monumental going on in the world of LLLT this last 7 days (my blog week starts on a Wednesday in case you are wondering). ASLMS and NZlaser2008 are both in April so I chose New Zealand. I subsequently received five separate requests to be in Florida ... http://blog.thorlaser.com/2008/03/19/no-news-to-report/