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Article: Questioning the value of laser therapy article.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- Addiction Professional
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Addiction Professional has sunk to a new low in publishing an article on low-level laser therapy for addictions (July/August 2007 issue). This technique is bunk; P.T. Barnum would have loved it. There is absolutely no solid research supporting its efficacy, either in the treatment of addictions or in other medical conditions in which it has been tried. In fact, in a quick online search of "low-level laser therapy," I could not find a single study of any methodological quality that showed an effect for this treatment.
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I wonder why the "psychologists" (unidentified either in the article or on their own Web site) at the Matrix ...