🧑 Human ⚔ Comparison study 👥 65 participants ⌛ 8 weeks · 2018 · Bahrain (Manama)
A randomized controlled trial comparing helium-neon laser therapy and infrared laser therapy in patients with diabetic foot ulcer.
Tantawy · Lasers Med Sci · 2018
The protocol this study used
What the authors concluded
The present study demonstrates that HNLT and ILT have similar effects to control diabetic foot ulcer in a short-term (up to 8 weeks). Eight weeks of laser therapy have beneficial impacts in diabetic foot ulcer." Comment: No information on how many PBM sessions there were?
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 5 J/cm² at that intensity.
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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.
Source
Dosimetry extracted by Vladimir Heiskanen in Photobiomodulation (PBM) research - a comprehensive database. Citation resolved against PubMed.