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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2023

Assessing the Impact of High Photon Energy Wavelengths on the Treatment of Chronic Neck and Shoulder Pain.

Travis Sammons, Kirk Gair, Robert G Silverman, Steve Shanks

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Travis SammonsErchonia Corporation, Melbourne, FL, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4047-481X
Kirk GairClinical Study Site, Laser Chiropractic, West Covina, CA, USA.
Robert G SilvermanClinical Study Site, New York ChiroCare, White Plains, NY, USA.
Steve ShanksErchonia Corporation, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Park Terrace Care Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effect of low-level laser therapy with high photon energy wavelengths, green and violet, for treating chronic musculoskeletal pain was examined in the first-ever clinical trial of its kind. Participants (

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PMID37829623
PMCPMC10567292
OpenAlexW4387324466

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