A Novel Treatment of Herpes Zoster Pain With Pulsed Laser Irradiation.

What the authors concluded

In summary, the authors found in the treatment of 5 herpes zoster patients that 1,064-nm Nd:YAG laser irradiation could significantly alleviate herpetic pain with persisting effect and no apparent adverse effect." Comment: The parameters were poorly reported.

Devices that emit this wavelength

Matched on wavelength within 15nm, since LED bins vary by roughly that much and a tighter match would be false precision. Where we have an irradiance figure, the session length is the time needed to reach this study's dose of 0.8 J/cm² at that intensity.

Matching a wavelength is not the same as reproducing a trial. Session times assume the device's published irradiance is accurate at the distance it was measured, which on brand-claim figures is often optimistic. Where a device publishes both a peak and an average we use the average, and where it publishes a falloff curve we use the lowest figure, so these times run long rather than short. Clinical protocols also control for spot size, contact and skin type in ways a home device cannot.