Laser Therapy for Orthopaedic Applications
excerpt taken from Dr. Toshio Ohshiro's paper: "27 YEARS OF LASER TREATMENT: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE"
Orthopaedic Applications of Laser Therapy
LLLT is ideally suited for orthopaedic indications, many of which cross-over from the pain clinic, including sprains and strains, tendinitis, contusions, bone fusion, slow-union fractures, whiplash syndromes, frozen shoulders, rotator cuff syndrome, rheumatoid disorders, and so on. The experimental work in this field has been very supportive of the excellent clinical findings. Bone fusion happens faster with LLLT.(27) Superior osseointegration, whereby biocompatible implants are integrated into and with growing bone tissue, has been demonstrated experimentally, and clinically.(28) Delayed union fractures have been cured with LLLT,(29) even in the presence of bone disease such as osteomyelitis (Figure 32).(30) Lumbar disc herniation has been reversed, with strength and elasticity returned to the weakened annulus with better retention of the nucleus pulposus (Figure 33, with MRI imaging).(31) Arthroses, in particular rheumatoid arthritis, have been successfully treated with LLLT, and experimental data back up the clinical findings with reduction of the RA signs in blood chemistry and smoothing of pain-related microvilli on the joint cartilages.( 32,33) Figures 13 and 14 above are good examples of acute and chronic cases successfully and speedily treated with LLLT.
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