Question has anyone heard of or had lazer therapy for fibromyalgia. My husbands friend told him that his wife had it and she was better for 2 years? Any responses would be appreciated.
My friend practices laser therapy as an alternate form of healing. She has done a few treatments on me and I really didn't feel any different, certainly not worse, however this was when she first got the laser. She says she has since learned certain settings for the laser that are for fibro and wants to try it on me. I will let her use me as a guinea pig, because if by some chance it does help, great. Of course my treatments are free, if I had to pay, I might be more hesitant. If people want to hear, I will be happy to share my experiences, once we do the treatment. That being said, I have heard many people in the 'laser community' who swear up and down and the wonderful benefits. I think one needs to try the therapy for oneself, and see if it works. Good luck.
Yes please let me know how it goes.
Is it also called cold light laser therapy or something similar? My sister heard about cold light laser therapy and was told that it was helpful to people with fibro. It's pretty expensive to buy a unit of your own but if you can find someone who offers it and it's not expensive, I think it might be worth a try **as long as it wouldn't be something that could worsen the fibro, through pain, etc.**
Here's a little more about cold light laser therapy. The wiki article does say what Singingtree's friend said, that you need to use a certain frequency in order for it to be useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_level_laser_therapy
If you try it, please let us know if you found it helpful!
Thanks.
I just found this thread. It may be of interest to our members that Ben's Friends has already banned discussion of this treatment on several networks because there are no reputable studies demonstrating effectiveness.
I reviewed the CuraLase website. The CuraLase website refers to no objective, peer-reviewed studies but mentions only "studies" performed by the people who stand to make money from these treatments. This makes me highly suspicious of this treatment.
This is from a discussion on our TN community from a medical researcher:
One should be prudently suspicious of any technique such as that advocated by the Laser Med Center, which does not have a Medicare procedure code and cannot be billed to medical insurance. Be even more suspicious when the only evidence offered for the technique are stories told (presumably) by patients on a website. FYI all, this socalled "Curalase" appears to have only the weakest form of US FDA certification: it is believed to be safe. Not effective, only safe.
There is a large body of literature on various studies attempting to use laser illumination to promote healing in torn muscles, tendons, broken bones, etc. Unlike TENS (Transcutaceous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) machines, however, it appears that very few of these "studies" meet even the most basic criteria of evidence based medicine and random-controlled trials (RCT). Likewise, the last time I wandered through the Laser Med Center website, I didn't see any specific references to named studies.
The procedure won't hurt you. But even if it does involve daily appointments for a couple of weeks, there is a pertinent question: would you pay a doctor $5,000 to apply a common light bulb to the rear of your skull for half an hour for ten days? Because that may turn out to be pretty much what all of this hype and hoopla amounts to. Low-power blue-green lasers can be purchased on the open market for less than $1,000 dollars. So it's not a matter of recovering their investment.