Conventional podiatric intervention and phototherapy in the treatment of diabetic ulcers

What the authors concluded

The rate of healing increased in all three groups, however, in this study, 67% of ulcers that were managed received some form of phototherapeutic intervention and 40% of those ulcers resolved completely in a period of <8 weeks with no adverse effects being reported by any of the participants." * Comment: Only 2 patients in placebo group. This small sample size does not allow any meaningful compa

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 3 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.