Essay On Laser Therapy

Acupuncture can be used to treat osteoarthritis. It is based on an idea that there are channels throughout the body called “meridians” and that these allow the transport of an energy known as “Qi.” (NHS. 2012. Acupuncture.) Generally, acupuncture involves the insertion of needles at specific points along the body - these are known as “acupoints.” This insertion is thought to lead to the movement of Qi throughout the body, which causes biomedical changes that result in the “promotion of physical and emotional well-being” through the release of endorphins. (British Acupuncture Council. 2011. Acupuncture and Osteoarthritis.) Inserting needles at specific acupoints to treat osteoarthritis sends a message to the brain that assists in the reduction of “sensitivity to pain and stress.” (British Acupuncture Council. 2011. Acupuncture and Osteoarthritis.) This reduction in pain can allow for a better range of movement, thus function.

The following analysis will observe various methods of CAM pain reduction, highlighting two major CAM therapies of interest: music therapy, animal therapy. In addition, the following analysis will discuss how different demographics react to such therapies, with gender, age, ethnicity, and education level playing a role in relation to a patient’s willingness to be open to CAM. Lastly this analysis will discuss the drawbacks of CAM therapies in the medical community today, emphasising a lack of discussion between provider and patient, and the general lack of clinical education surrounding CAM therapies within the medical community.

Osteoarthritis, the most common type of arthritis, is most prevalent in older patients. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative bone disease due to the gradual loss of cartilage. A primary type of osteoarthritis is hip arthritis where it is caused by joint injury, increasing age, and being overweight (“Hip Osteoarthritis,” n.d.). However, osteoarthritis can also be caused by immature joints, inherited defects in cartilage, and extra stress on a patient’s joints (Hip Osteoarthritis,” n.d.). As a result, hip arthritis becomes a huge detriment in patient’s social, emotional, physical lifestyles. In order to treat hip arthritis, doctors choose from a variety of non-drug treatments, medications, and surgeries. Uniquely, I was inspired to research about the treatments of hip arthritis because my very own brother was pronounced with hip arthritis a few years back. Therefore, his determination to battle this disease encouraged me to investigate about the treatment of hip arthritis.

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Taking 45 cats and basing on the background of spontaneous discharges of 244 body sensory neurons, observations were conducted to see the effect of nociception stimulations and hair touching stimulation on sensory neuron discharges and the influence of electrical acupuncture. Results showed that of the 244 sensory neurons, 50 responded to nociception stimulation (20.5%); 36 showed up-word discharges (14.8%), while 14 showed down-word discharges (5.7%); 11 cases of up-word discharges showed only restrained effect, which led to a decrease of emission rate (81.9%).

The goals for management are to reduce joint pain and stiffness, maintain and improve joint mobility, improve muscle strength, limit subsequent joint damage and improve quality of life. Conservative treatment may include rest, range-of-motion exercises, use of assistive device to decrease weight-bearing, weight loss and glucosamine. Pharmacological treatment may include analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs or intra-articular injections of hyaluronic acid (Ng, Heesch & Brown 2012). Alternative therapy includes acupuncture or magnetic bracelets. Surgical treatment includes artificial implants to create new joints, correction of a deformity or misalignment, and improvement of joint movement (McCance, Huether, Brashers, & Rote, 2010). The Osteoarthritis Research Society International (ORSI) has an extensive list of recommendations to manage OA that emphasizes weight reduction in the obese, exercise and educating patients (ORSI,

Pharmacological treatments include analgesics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), opioids hyaluronic acid, corticosteroid injections (Citiation Garcia) or disease-modifying osteoarthritis drugs (DMOADs) such as sodium pentosan polysulfate. Kumagai et al researched the efficacy of subcutaneous injections with sodium pentosan polysulfate on the improvement of cartilage while Garcia-Padilla et al researched the efficacy of intra-articular injections of bicarbonate and calcium gluconate. For treatments to be clinically significant they must alleviate the symptoms; therefore, the treatment should decrease the patient?s level of pain and/or joint stiffness from moderate to mild while resting or being active. The normal range of motion of the knee is 0 to 130 degrees for flexion and 120 to 0 degrees for extension(CITATION Mercks); therefore, within the affected joint the range of motion should increase by 10 degrees. However, the range of motion will be affected by the amount of cartilage lost and scar tissue in the knee joint; therefore, a full recovery in the range of motion should not be

The great traditional healing for joint affliction, equivalent to osteo­arthritis often involves prescribed exercises to maintain the joints flexible, motivate nourishment of the cartilage, and support

Research was conducted using the WLU library website and the primo search engine. Articles were then found using keywords such as TENS, ultrasound and laser to conduct research on the various modalities that could be review for the assignment. After reviewing numerous articles, it became apparent that there were a sufficient number of articles regarding the transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) modality. The next step was to then come up with a relatively common that could be treated using the TENS modality. Again, by reviewing the relevant literature using keywords such as Injury and TENS modality. It was evident that a common injury managed using TENS was osteoarthritis and more specifically osteoarthritis of the knee. The next step was to again read the literature pertaining to osteoarthritis of the knee and management of it pain using the TENS modality. Upon reviewing the literature, a stand was taken on whether or not the use of TENS was effective or not. The stand taken in this paper was refuting the efficacy of TENS and that is not effective in managing pain with regard to

Physical therapist clinicians select, prescribe, and implement use of physical agents for a number of therapeutically beneficial reasons.1 According to Cameron,2 physical agents are defined as energy or materials physically applied to patients to assist in rehabilitation. They include heat, cold, water, pressure, sound, electromagnetic radiation, and electrical currents. This study will focus on the use of therapeutic ultrasound (US) to treat osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Therapeutic US is regularly used passively by physical therapist clinicians3 to treat knee OA, but its use lacks substantial evidence of positive therapeutic effect in people with knee OA.4-6

Dry needling is one of the most effective treatments that reduces chronic lateral and hip pain. The needles are placed on lateral hips because the sciatica nerve goes all the way down to the foot. Dry needling may or may not contain anesthetic (Bodger 140). Dry needling is usually combined with electrical stimulation, but certain devices such as pacemaker can interfere with it: therefore, dry needling is used alone (Pavkovich 548). Studies have found that dry needling without anesthetic produces the same effect on pain reduction as the ones containing anesthetic (Bodger 140).  The pain can interfere with one’s sleep, walking, and daily activities. Subjects who had this specific treatment showed improvement on sleep, “walking tolerance, and daily activity tolerance” as a result of pain and disability reduction (Pavkovich 548). The subjects who were submitted to this treatment demonstrated no major opposing effects, but a decrease in pain and progresses (Pavkovich 548). Further research may be needed to explain its effectiveness. However, its efficiency as for now is

This additional effect is beneficial in acute lesions of neural structures, such as acute lumbar radiculopathy. A less than optimal choice of parameters can result in reduced effectiveness of treatment, or even a negative therapeutic outcome. As a result, many of the published results on LLLT include negative results simply because of an on appropriate choice of light source and dosage. LLLT is characterized by a biphasic dose response: lower doses of light are more beneficial than high doses.

The result of the clinical trial: Generally, a percutaneous method using ozone treatment has shown a significant efficiency for short or long term duration for pain relief related to chronic low back pain due to the diagnosis of disc herniation or disc deterioration (Magalhaes et al., 2012).

Adhesive capsulitis is a problem that therapeutic ultrasound, low-level laser therapy, inferential current, TENS, and pulsed electromagnetic field therapy have not been researched enough to see if it works. This study was done to see if low-level laser treatment and exercise improved patients’ pain, functional impairment, and active shoulder abduction versus a placebo and exercise.

While the evidence is very promising for its use in the treatment of osteoarthritis, studies of glucosamine for treatment of other joint pain related disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis and chronic low back pain have been much less compelling.