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ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Efficacy of Photobiomodulation Therapy in the Treatment of Pain and Inflammation: A Literature Review.

Ana González-Muñoz, María Cuevas-Cervera, José Javier Pérez-Montilla, Daniel Aguilar-Núñez, Dina Hamed-Hamed, María Aguilar-García, Leo Pruimboom, Santiago Navarro-Ledesma

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Review in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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28citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
12.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ana González-MuñozDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Campus of Melilla, University of Granada, Querol Street 5, 52004 Melilla, Spain.
María Cuevas-CerveraDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Campus of Melilla, University of Granada, Querol Street 5, 52004 Melilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4623-9669
José Javier Pérez-MontillaDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Campus of Melilla, University of Granada, Querol Street 5, 52004 Melilla, Spain.
Daniel Aguilar-NúñezDepartment of Nursing and Podiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malaga, 29071 Malaga, Spain.
Dina Hamed-HamedDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Campus of Melilla, University of Granada, Querol Street 5, 52004 Melilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9931-2359
María Aguilar-GarcíaDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Campus of Melilla, University of Granada, Querol Street 5, 52004 Melilla, Spain.
Leo PruimboomDepartment of Physiotherapy, University Chair in Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology (University of Granada and PNI Europe), 2518 JP The Hague, The Netherlands.
Santiago Navarro-LedesmaDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Campus of Melilla, University of Granada, Querol Street 5, 52004 Melilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4302-1106
Universidad de Granada · ESUniversidad de Málaga · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The main objective of this literature review was to analyze the efficacy of (PBM) therapy application on subjects with chronic pain and inflammation, and furthermore, to evaluate the methodological quality of the collected literature. The search was conducted using five databases: PubMed, ProQuest, Scopus, Web of Science, and PEDro. The keywords "low level laser therapy", "chronic pain", and "inflammation" provided the selection of RCTs that were published within the last 5 years, conducted in humans, and written in English. The PEDro Internal Validity Scale (IVS) checklist was used to evaluate the risk of bias in the included studies. A total of 11 articles were selected, all of them RCTs. Of the articles, five showed that PBM positively influences chronic pain, while another showed the same but only in the short term. In two other articles, the patient's inflammation improved markedly. In one article there was no improvement in chronic pain and in another, there was no improvement in inflammation. Four articles demonstrated that PBM is beneficial in acute pain. Furthermore, six studies were given an "excellent" score and the remaining five a "good" score based on the IVS. Photobiomodulation has beneficial effects on chronic pain and inflammation, although more research needs to be completed in this line for this to be clarified as the existence of RCTs on this subject is limited.

Indexed as

chronic paininflammationlow-level laser therapymetabolismphotobiomodulation

Identifiers

PMID37046865
PMCPMC10094541
OpenAlexW4360854440

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