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Can osteoarthritis be treated with light?

Overview of attention for article published in Arthritis Research & Therapy, October 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Title
Can osteoarthritis be treated with light?
Published in
Arthritis Research & Therapy, October 2013
DOI 10.1186/ar4354
Pubmed ID
Authors

Michael R Hamblin

Abstract

Osteoarthritis is becoming more problematic as the population ages. Recent reports suggest that the benefit of anti-inflammatory drugs is unimpressive and the incidence of side effects is worrying. Low-level laser (light) therapy (LLLT) is an alternative approach with no known side effects and with reports of substantial therapeutic efficacy in osteoarthritis. In this issue of Arthritis Research & Therapy, Alves and colleagues used a rat model of osteoarthritis produced by intra-articular injection of the cartilage-degrading enzyme papain to test 810-nm LLLT. A single application of LLLT produced significant reductions in inflammatory cell infiltration and inflammatory cytokines 24 hours later. A lower laser power was more effective than a higher laser power. However, more work is necessary before the title question can be answered in the affirmative.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 62 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 16%
Student > Master 9 15%
Student > Bachelor 7 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 8%
Other 3 5%
Other 10 16%
Unknown 18 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 5%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 3%
Other 14 23%
Unknown 21 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 October 2023.
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#1,100,351
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#98
of 3,380 outputs
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#9,915
of 225,431 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#1
of 66 outputs
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