🧑 Human 📄 Single-arm study 👥 30 participants ⌛ 3-week treatment -> 1-year follow-up · 2014 · USA
Low-Level Laser Therapy for the Treatment of Chronic Plantar Fasciitis: A Prospective Study.
Jastifer · Foot Ankle Int · 2014
The protocol this study used
What the authors concluded
Patients demonstrated a mean improvement in heel pain VAS from 67.8 out of 100 at baseline to 6.9 out of 100 at the 12-month follow-up period." "Although further studies are warranted, this study shows that LLLT is a promising treatment of chronic plantar fasciitis.
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 1.476 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.