Timeline for Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy - is it any better than just infrared light?
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| Nov 18, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/1461122025578274819 | ||
| Nov 17, 2021 at 10:44 | vote | accept | dominecf | ||
| Nov 17, 2021 at 6:15 | comment | added | Jerome Viveiros | @CodeswithHammer I did find an article claiming that class 4 is destructive to tissue, but it was written by someone pushing LLLT. There's so much misinformation about this field. | |
| Nov 16, 2021 at 15:10 | comment | added | Codes with Hammer | I don't see any discussion in the Wikipedia article on LLLT what "low power" means in this context. I do see in the article on laser safety that a Class 4 laser WILL do something, though whether the "something" is medically beneficial requires proper study and proper laser safety. (Quick summary: When working with a Class 4 laser, do not stare at the beam, even from the side, without safety goggles.) | |
| Nov 16, 2021 at 2:10 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | It would be rather easy to test against placebo. So they have no excuse not to. Those light frequencies are not visible except to elves and halflings. To humans the emitters seem to emit only a slight red glow, due to imperfections in the emitters spilling into the visible range. So make some placebo instruments designed to only emit a faint red glow. The fact that they do not test against placebo is all you need to hear. | |
| Nov 15, 2021 at 8:37 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 15, 2021 at 8:14 | comment | added | Jerome Viveiros | Apologies... I answered, then deleted my answer, and have restored it again, as a partial answer. It seems that LLLT has been shown conclusively to not be based on evidence. And MLT is just a marketing name for some kind of class 4 LLLT. Partial answer because perhaps it would be better to either show conclusively that they are one and the same, or find a study explicitly on MLS. | |
| Nov 15, 2021 at 7:22 | answer | added | Jerome Viveiros | timeline score: 23 | |
| Nov 15, 2021 at 6:59 | comment | added | Jerome Viveiros | +1. No idea how to answer this question, hence this is a comment. My impression is the entire field is pseudoscience... but none of my go-to medical sites such as SBM or Respectful Insolence seem to have covered this. | |
| S Nov 14, 2021 at 23:36 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Nov 14, 2021 at 23:36 | history | asked | dominecf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |