Therapeutic Effects of Low-Level Laser Therapy on Pain and Disability of Patients with Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

What the authors concluded

NRS and ODI were significantly improved after treatment, as well as therapeutic effects, after 1 month and 6 months were also evident and comparison of the NRS and ODI showed significant difference." "LLLT has a positive impact on pain and disability in patients with FBSS.

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 20 J/cm² at that intensity.

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.