ReviewJournal of lasers in medical sciences2019
The Use of Laser Therapy for Patients with Fibromyalgia: A Critical Literary Review.
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- A brief literature review of low-level laser therapy for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and confirmation of its effectiveness.BioMedicine · 2024Review
- Association between elasticity of tissue and pain pressure threshold in the tender points present in subjects with fibromyalgia: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2023Observational
- Whole-Body Photobiomodulation Therapy for Fibromyalgia: A Feasibility Trial.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Short-Term Effects of Whole-Body Photobiomodulation on Pain, Quality of Life and Psychological Factors in a Population Suffering from Fibromyalgia: A Triple-Blinded Randomised Clinical Trial.Pain and therapy · 2023Article
- Whole-body photobiomodulation therapy for chronic pain: a protocol for a feasibility trial.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Short- and long-term effects of whole-body photobiomodulation on pain, functionality, tissue quality, central sensitisation and psychological factors in a population suffering from fibromyalgia: protocol for a triple-blinded randomised clinical trial.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2022Article
- A Review of Laser Therapy and Low-Intensity Ultrasound for Chronic Pain States.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Review
- Low-Level Laser Therapy for Herpesvirus Infections: A Narrative Literature Review.Journal of lasers in medical sciences · 2021Review
- Fibromyalgia: Recent Advances in Diagnosis, Classification, Pharmacotherapy and Alternative Remedies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Laser Acupuncture: 35 Years of Successful Application in Russia (Narrative Review).Journal of lasers in medical sciences · 2020Review
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Abstract
The management of pain - despite many anaesthetic drugs - remains to be an urgent task. If the goal is to achieve permanent pain relief - and not to temporarily mask the pain (masking pathology) - then this goal can only be achieved by treating pain with physiotherapeutic methods, the most universal and effective of which, is low level laser therapy (LLLT). The treatment methods vary fundamentally in the case of neuropathic (nonspecific, primary) pain, which includes pain with the localization of the trigger points (TP) and nociceptive (specific, secondary), which includes all types of pain resulting from trauma, inflammation, etc. When treating patients with fibromyalgia (FM), a comprehensive approach is required, using different methods of laser therapy and guided by well-known rules. These rules include setting all the correct parameters of the laser exposure (wavelength, operating mode, power, exposure, etc), limiting exposure and power to optimal values and limiting the total time of the procedure and the number of procedures per course.
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