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Trial reportLasers in medical science2022

Treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome by low-level laser therapy versus corticosteroid injection: a randomized, prospective clinical study.

Sevtap Badıl Güloğlu, Meral Bilgilisoy Filiz, Koray Kaya Kılıç, Şebnem Koldaş Doğan, İclal Erdem Toslak, Naciye Füsun Toraman

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Lasers in medical science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sevtap Badıl GüloğluPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Health Science University Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey. drsevtapbadil@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4872-7519
Meral Bilgilisoy FilizPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Health Science University Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.
Koray Kaya KılıçRadiology, Health Science University Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.
Şebnem Koldaş DoğanPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Health Science University Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.
İclal Erdem ToslakRadiology, Health Science University Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.
Naciye Füsun ToramanPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Health Science University Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To compare the effects of low level laser therapy (LLLT) and corticosteroid injection in patients with moderate carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Eighty-seven patients (143 wrists) with moderate CTS were randomized to the corticosteroid or LLLT groups. 40 mg of triamcinolone acetate solution was applied to carpal tunnel of 44 patients (74 wrist). LLLT was applied to 43 patients (70 wrist) five times a week, for a total of 15 sessions (fluence of 6 j/cm

Indexed as

Carpal Tunnel SyndromeLow-Level Light TherapyAdrenal Cortex HormonesDouble-Blind MethodHumansMedian NerveNeural ConductionProspective StudiesTreatment OutcomeAdrenal Cortex HormonesCarpal tunnel syndromeCorticosteroid injectionLow level laser therapyMagnetic resonance imaging

Identifiers

PMID35022874

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