Laser beam therapy for pain. 1st. report Effects "Koshi" like application of laser beams.
10.3777/jjsam.36.67
- VernacularTitle:とう痛に対するレーザー光線治療 Ｉ レーザー光線の巨刺的使用の効果
- Author:
Shigeru ARICHI
;
Yoshinori IMANISHI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
1986;36(2):67-72
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Irradiation by low output semiconductor laser beam according to the method using “Koshi” by acupuncture at an irradiation site of lesions and a contralateral site of healthy region as a control resulted in expansion of the mobility range of neck, shoulder and arm syndromes. It was effective for motion pains of arm joint or joint pains of metacarpophalangeal joint and also effective for lumbago and neuralgia. It did not easily improve the effects on cervical motion pain and knee joint pain. In all 29 cases (consisting of 6 men and 23 women aging 30 to 75 years), 18 were effective: 3 of 3 cases with neck, shoulder and arm syndrome, 1 of 4 cases with cervical movement pains, 1 of 2 cases with arm joint pains, 2 of 2 cases with back pains, 6 of 8 cases with lumbago, 1 of 5 cases with knee joint pains, 2 of 2 cases with neuralgia, 1 of 1 case with foot joint pains, and 1 of 1 case with metacarpophalangeal joint pains, 9 moderate: 3 of 4 cases with cervical motion pains, 1 of 2 cases with arm joint pains, 1 of 8 cases with lumbago, 3 of 5 cases with knee joint pains, and 1 of 1 case with elbow joint pains, and 2 poor: 1 of 8 cases with lumbago and 1 of 5 cases with knee joint pains. Thus laser beam effectiveness was confirmed.
