🧑 Human 🎲 Randomized trial, sham-controlled 👥 75 participants ⌛ 2-week treatment / (?) · 2002 · Turkey (Diyarbakir)
Effects of low power laser and low dose amitriptyline therapy on clinical symptoms and quality of life in fibromyalgia: a single-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Gür · Rheumatol Int · 2002
The protocol this study used
Wavelength
904 nm
Dose
2 J/cm²
Sessions
10
Per session
3 min
What the authors concluded
Our study suggests that both amitriptyline and laser therapies are effective on clinical symptoms and QOL in fibromyalgia and that Ga-As laser therapy is a safe and effective treatment in cases with FM. Additionally, the present study suggests that the Ga-As laser therapy can be used as a monotherapy or as a supplementary treatment to other therapeutic procedures in FM." Comment: It seems the PB
Source
Dosimetry extracted by Vladimir Heiskanen in Photobiomodulation (PBM) research - a comprehensive database. Citation resolved against PubMed.