Low-level laser therapy for acute neck pain with radiculopathy: a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized study
Konstantinovic LM, Cutovic MR, Milovanovic AN, Jovic SJ, Dragin AS, Letic MDj, Miler VM
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 47 citas
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- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
- Universidad u hospital
- Institute of Physics Belgrade
Según 1 financiador declarado.
Publicación
- Publicado
- 2010-07-30 · Pain Med · vol. 11 · número 8 · págs. 1169–1178
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Citado
- 82 citas · más que el 95% de estudios similares · 5.1× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 73 trabajos
- Acceso
- De pago
- Áreas de investigación
- Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Pain Management and Treatment
- Palabras clave
- low-level laser therapy, acute neck pain, radiculopathy, arm pain, cervical range of motion, neck extension, Neck Disability Index, quality of life, placebo effect
- MeSH
- humans, neck pain, radiculopathy, acute disease, pain measurement, treatment outcome, prospective studies, double-blind method, adult, middle aged, female, male, low-level light therapy
7 autores
- Ljubica M. Konstantinović🇷🇸 · autor de correspondenciaUniversity of Belgrade
- Milisav R. Cutovic
- Aleksandar N. Milovanovic
- Stevan Jović
- Aleksandra S. Dragin
- Milica Dj. Letic🇷🇸University of Belgrade
- Vera Miler-Jerković
Resumen
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Objective
The objective of the study was to investigate clinical effects of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in patients with acute neck pain with radiculopathy.
Design
Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study.
Setting
The study was carried out between January 2005 and September 2007 at the Clinic for Rehabilitation at the Medical School, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Patients and intervention
Sixty subjects received a course of 15 treatments over 3 weeks with active or an inactivated laser as a placebo procedure. LLLT was applied to the skin projection at the anatomical site of the spinal segment involved with the following parameters: wavelength 905 nm, frequency 5,000 Hz, power density of 12 mW/cm(2), and dose of 2 J/cm(2), treatment time 120 seconds, at whole doses 12 J/cm(2).
Outcome measures
The primary outcome measure was pain intensity as measured by a visual analog scale. Secondary outcome measures were neck movement, neck disability index, and quality of life. Measurements were taken before treatment and at the end of the 3-week treatment period.
Results
Statistically significant differences between groups were found for intensity of arm pain (P = 0.003, with high effect size d = 0.92) and for neck extension (P = 0.003 with high effect size d = 0.94).
Conclusion
LLLT gave more effective short-term relief of arm pain and increased range of neck extension in patients with acute neck pain with radiculopathy in comparison to the placebo procedure.
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