🧑 Human ⚔ Comparison trial, randomized, double-blind 👥 60 participants ⌛ 8 weeks · 2018 · Slovenia (Ljubljana)
Phototherapy with LED Shows Promising Results in Healing Chronic Wounds in Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Prospective Randomized Double-Blind Study.
Frangež · Photomed Laser Surg · 2018
The protocol this study used
What the authors concluded
After 8 weeks, the mean surface in the LED group was 56% of the baseline surface and 65% in the Co-group (p > 0.05). Falanga score evaluation showed significantly faster wound bed healing in the LED group compared with the Co-group (p < 0.05)." Comment: There was only 3.3x total energy difference between PBM and the so-called "control group". It could explain the small difference between the g
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 0.576 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.