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🧑 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

Wavelength
635 nm
Dose
1.476 J/cm²
Sessions
6
Per session
10 min

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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MitoPRO 1500+
630 · 660 · 830 · 850 nm
Measured
$1,169
≈ 19 sec / session
at 76.5 mW/cm²
MitoPRO 1500X
590 · 630 · 660 · 810 · 830 · 850 nm
Measured
$1,299
≈ 28 sec / session
at 53.5 mW/cm²
PlatinumLED BIOMAX 900
480 · 630 · 660 · 810 · 830 · 850 · 1060 nm
Measured
$1,299
≈ 16 sec / session
at 90.3 mW/cm²
MitoADAPT MAX 4.0
590 · 630 · 660 · 670 · 810 · 830 · 850 · 940 nm
Measured
$1,499
≈ 30 sec / session
at 49.4 mW/cm²
MitoADAPT MIN 4.0
590 · 630 · 660 · 670 · 810 · 830 · 850 · 940 nm
Measured
$549
≈ 36 sec / session
at 40.7 mW/cm²
PlatinumLED BIOMAX 300
480 · 630 · 660 · 810 · 830 · 850 · 1060 nm
Measured
$659
≈ 21 sec / session
at 70 mW/cm²

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

PubMed 24510123 →

Dosimetry extracted by Vladimir Heiskanen in Photobiomodulation (PBM) research - a comprehensive database. Citation resolved against PubMed.