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🧑 Human 🎲 Randomized trial, sham-controlled 👥 63 participants ⌛ 8-week treatment -> 8-week follow-up · 2008 · Greece (Sparta)

Low-power laser treatment in patients with frozen shoulder: preliminary results.

Stergioulas A · Photomed Laser Surg · 2008

The protocol this study used

Wavelength
810 nm
Dose
3.6 J/cm²
Sessions
12
Per session
4 min

What the authors concluded

Relative to the placebo group, the active laser group had: (1) a significant decrease in overall, night, and activity pain scores at the end of 4 wk and 8 wk of treatment, and at the end of 8 wk additional follow-up (16 wk post-randomization); (2) a significant decrease in shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI) scores and Croft shoulder disability questionnaire scores at those same interval

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 3.6 J/cm² at that intensity.

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MitoPRO 1500X
590 · 630 · 660 · 810 · 830 · 850 nm
Measured
$1,299
≈ 67 sec / session
at 53.5 mW/cm²
PlatinumLED BIOMAX 900
480 · 630 · 660 · 810 · 830 · 850 · 1060 nm
Measured
$1,299
≈ 40 sec / session
at 90.3 mW/cm²
MitoADAPT MAX 4.0
590 · 630 · 660 · 670 · 810 · 830 · 850 · 940 nm
Measured
$1,499
≈ 73 sec / session
at 49.4 mW/cm²
MitoADAPT MIN 4.0
590 · 630 · 660 · 670 · 810 · 830 · 850 · 940 nm
Measured
$549
≈ 88 sec / session
at 40.7 mW/cm²
PlatinumLED BIOMAX 300
480 · 630 · 660 · 810 · 830 · 850 · 1060 nm
Measured
$659
≈ 51 sec / session
at 70 mW/cm²
Infraredi Pro Max 2.0
630 · 660 · 810 · 830 · 850 nm
Measured
$959
≈ 50 sec / session
at 72 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 18341417 →

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