Laser Therapy - Clinical Practice and Scientific Background

“Laser Therapy - Clinical Practice and Scientific Background" is a reference guide as well as a wealth of laser therapy knowledge.

The book contains 600 pages, hard cover, multicoloured and loaded with new information about the clinical and scientific aspects of laser therapy. Among other things there are about 1400 references.

Laser therapy - a powerful medical tool

Medicine of today is dominated by expensive pharmaceuticals and advanced technologies. Although generally very sophisticated and helpful they cause a great number of predictable and unpredictable side effects. Laser therapy offers a safe therapeutic medical modality that is free from side effects. The unique quality of laser therapy is its universal usefulness. Even if more precise conditions such as pain, oedema, zoster, paraesthesia and herpes can be treated, laser therapy also has a general beneficial influence on the immune system, thus enabling healing processes to start. After more than 30 years of use, no harmful side effects have been reported.

Laser therapy has a so far untapped potential in health care. The purpose of this book is to describe the physical and clinical aspects of laser therapy and to analyse the rich scientific literature in this field. The book will serve as a useful guide and reference work for research scientists, doctors, dentists, veterinary surgeons, nurses, physiotherapists and other workers within the medical field. Every indication discussed is supported by scientific references and all in all more than 1400 such references are listed.

Laser therapy has for some persons an aura of magic through its ability to heal longstanding medical problems. To other persons it has an aura of “alternative” medicine through the allegedly poor scientific foundation. Both categories will find that they are wrong. Laser therapy is no magic, and the rich scientific documentation will certainly surprise the unbelieving.

The authors are Jan Tunér, DDS and Lars Hode, Dr Sci

They have more than 16 years of clinical experience and scientific knowledge of laser physics. This book will not only enhance your understanding of laser therapy and improve your clinical success, it is also a useful encyclopaedia for laser therapy.

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Contents at a glance
Chapter 1 - Some basic laser physics		1
	Electromagnetic radiation	2
	Various sources of radiation	5
	Laser types in medicine and surgery	26
	The surgical lasers	27
	Therapeutic lasers	40
Chapter 2 - Therapeutic instruments		45
	A customer's guide	46
	Ten points to consider when choosing an instrument	56
	How do I maintain my laser?	59
Chapter 3 - Biostimulation		61
	History	62
	A few words on mechanisms	65
	What parameters to use	68
	Other considerations	92
	Laser Therapy with high output lasers	98
	Risks and side effects	101
	How to measure effects of laser therapy	105
	"Is laser therapy effective?"	107
Chapter 4 - Medical indications		115
	Who and what can be treated?	116
	Anecdotal indications	198
	Chapter 5 - Dental laser therapy	201
	What is “a god dentist”	202
	On which patients can laser therapy be used?	203
	Dental indications	203
	Other dental laser applications	234
	Case reports	235
Chapter 6 - Dental research		239
Chapter 7 - Veterinary use		277
Chapter 8 - Contraindications		285
	Pacemaker	286
	Pregnancy	286
	Epilepsy	286
	Thyroid gland	286
	Children	287
	Cancer	288
	Radiation therapy patients	288
	Diabetes	289
Chapter 9 - Laser therapy on the Internet		291
	Laser therapy on the Internet	291
	Internet discussion groups	292
Chapter 10 - The difficult dose and intensity		311
	Basics about energy	312
	Output power	313
	Power density	314
	The laser beam	316
	The laser probe	318
	Pulsed lasers	319
	Energy density	319
	Treatment dose	320
	The dose does not depend on the intensity	325
	Dose per point	328
	More about treatment technique	329
Chapter 11 - The Mechanisms		333
	Are the biostimulative effects laser specific?	334
	Possible primary mechanisms	348
	Secondary mechanisms	356
	Summary of mechanisms	361
	Diagnostics with Therapy Lasers	363
	Photodynamic Therapy - PDT,	363
	Other medical uses of lasers	363
Chapter 12 - A guide for scientific work		365
	Methodology of a trial	368
	Parameters	369
Chapter 13 The laser therapy literature		379
	The positive double blind studies	380
	The negative double blind studies	388
	Are all the negative studies really negative?	391
	The Cochrane analyses – can they be improved?	412
	Poor documentation – compared to what?	418
	The Russian experience	418
	The work of Tiina Karu	421
	English language books on laser therapy:	430
	Books in other languages, with ISBN.	431
	Laser journals	433
Chapter 14 - References - Abbreviations		435
	Numeric references referred to in the book.	436
	Alphabetical register of references	499
	Abbreviations	559
Alphabetic index		561

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