🧑 Human 🎲 Randomized trial, sham-controlled 👥 45 participants ⌛ 8 weeks · 2019 · Brazil (Santos)
Effects of Light-Emitting Diode Therapy on the Performance of Biceps Brachii Muscle of Young Healthy Males After 8 Weeks of Strength Training: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.
Vieira · J Strength Cond Res · 2019
The protocol this study used
What the authors concluded
Our findings suggest that photobiomodulation does not have an effect on muscle performance and resistance to fatigue of the biceps brachii in untrained young males who undergo an 8-week strength training program. This result was not expected, since previous studies had shown efficacy of LLLT on reducing muscle fatigue and improving muscle performance (3,12,40).
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 40 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.