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Sessions generally last around one hour. A dynamic and static assessment is followed by appropriate methods to reduce pain and improve your animals way of going. Techniques include manual therapies including joint mobilisations and massage and electrotherapies such as laser therapy and therapeutic ultrasound.

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Taken from http://www.electrotherapy.org/modality/laser-therapy

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LLLT when applied to the body tissues, delivers energy at a level sufficient to disturb local electron orbits & result in the generation of heat, initiate chemical change, disrupt molecular bonds & produce free radicals. These are considered to be the primary mechanisms by which LLLT achieves its physiological & therefore therapeutic effects and the primary target is effectively the cell membrane.

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Inflammatory Arthropathies

There have been several trials involving the use of LILT and various inflammatory problems in joints. As with the wound work, there are mixed results, but the general trend appears to be largely supportive. The recent Ottawa Panel review was supportive of laser therapy in RA.

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Soft Tissue Injury

There is a fairly widespread use of LILT in a variety of soft tissue treatments. Some results are excellent and others poor. It is possible that the weak results relate to incorrect doses or possibly considering the use of laser therapy for injuries that are simply beyond the reach of the energy delivered (see penetration section above). The Tuner and Hode book has multiple examples of effective (and less effective) soft tissue treatments with LILT and identifies some of the key research in this area.

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Pain

It was broadly assumed (until more recently) that the effect of laser therapy with regards to pain relief was primarily a secondary effect of dealing with the inflammatory state. Whilst this may well be true (to some extent at least), there is growing evidence that laser therapy can have a more direct effect of nerve conduction characteristics and hence may result in reduced pain as a more direct effect of the therapy. A recent example of a paper along these lines would be Vinck et al 2005.

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