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March 25, 2013
The Bottom Line -When the right dose goes wrong
Reprinted from the web site of Thor Photomedicine It must gall to have performed a controlled clinical trial for a year only to find at the end that your physics department had adjusted the active laser such that it did read more
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What is Low and What is High?
What is low and what is high? By Jan Tunér Let us first be clear about one thing – science is not to be based upon what we already know. To use “inappropriate” methods in a study is not wrong. read more
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Issue 3, Paper 1, 2012
Paper 5/2012 Clin Rheumatol. 2010 Aug;29(8):905-10. Is low-level laser therapy effective in acute or chronic low back pain? Ay S, Doğan SK, Evcik D. Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) read more
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Failed Analyses – Cochrane
The Cochrane LPT analyses – can they be improved? By Jan Tunér and Lars Hode (From The New Laser Therapy Handbook, 2010, Prima Books AB. Originally published in Laser Therapy journal 1999) The aim of the international Cochrane collaboration is read more
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Failed Analyses – Blue Cross
Is the Blue Cross Meta analysis reliable? By Jan Tunér As often pointed out, it takes a combined knowledge of medicine, scientific methods and physics to evaluate (or to perform) a study of the therapeutic laser modality. This combination is read more
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Failed Analyses – Worksafe
The Worksafe review Author: Jan Tunér Laser phototherapy is a complicated therapy containing many parameters to pay attention to in order to obtain a good clinical result. The availability of unbiased education in this field is scarce and practitioners are read more
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Evidence-Based Therapies and Their Pitfalls
Evidence based therapies and their pitfalls By Jan Tunér Many systematic reviews on LLLT fail to understand the importance of analysing the actual laser parameters, thus mixing apples and bananas. One systematic review overcoming such shortcomings is the excellent review read more
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Burning Mouth Syndrome
The Burning Mouth Syndrome and LLLT – a useful concept? By Jan Tunér Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is a common disease but still a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians. Despite many studie, its nature remains obscure and controversial; nowadays read more
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Issue 1, Paper 4, 2012
Paper 4/2012 Midwifery. 2011 Oct 5. [Epub ahead of print] A randomised clinical trial of the effect of low-level laser therapy for perineal pain and healing after episiotomy: A pilot study. Santos JD, Oliveira SM, Nobre MR, Aranha AC, Alvarenga read more
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Issue 1, Paper 1, 2012
Paper 1/2012 J Orofac Pain. 2010 Summer;24(3):293-7. The anti-inflammatory effect of low-level laser therapy on experimentally induced inflammation of rabbit temporomandibular joint retrodiscal tissues. Kucuk BB, Oral K, Selcuk NA, Toklu T, Civi OG. Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, read more
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