🧑 Human 📄 Single-arm trial 👥 28 participants ⌛ ~10-week treatment + 🧪 In vitro · 2013 · Korea (Seoul)
In vivo and in vitro analysis of low level light therapy: a useful therapeutic approach for sensitive skin
Choi · Lasers Med Sci · 2013
The protocol this study used
What the authors concluded
Twenty-eight patients complaining of sensitive skin were treated with low-level polarized light, and clinical results were evaluated using subjective and objective method (...) The average number of LLLT sessions required to achieve clinical improvement was 9.9, and cumulative dose of LLLT was 71.3 J/cm2 on the average. Erythema index decreased significantly after LLLT treatment (p = 0.017).
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 7.2 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.