LED therapy: legit or bologna?

[MRC_Hans]

Soothing music has been shown to ease pain, e.g. during dental treatment. Since pain is very subjective this is hardly surprising.

Obviously, it was not double-blind. It might have been single-blind (the investigator scoring reports without knowing which patients heard music), but I doubt it. It is not possible to compare the effect with medication, since the effect of pain-relief medication is dose-dependent.

I said this before, but: LED treatment is nothing mysterious. It is just a modern and effective way to apply localized heat, and as such has certain merits in therapy. LED wavelenght is only relevant because it can, to some degree, regulate penetration depth.

Hans

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led therapy

Hallo

Let me clarify...

Maybe i was bit too hasty about the doubleblind thing...

(I can't actually recall the basis for the testing of music easing pain...since it was some time ago I heard it on the news)

Mea Culpa

What I meant to say was this:

It is the amount of pain that a person experiences after an operation for instance that playing soothing MUSIC has been
able to be shown to ease the pain. (and yes, since the experience of pain is a subjectivbely one, this probably isn't any surprise...)

Greetings
Karsten