Treatment of Chronic Craniofacial Pain with Mphi Laser and Orthotic

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C. A. Bennett, S. R. Olmos
Energy for Health [13], 2014

Laser therapy has become an increasingly adopted method of physical medicine to help accelerate healing and reduce pain. Treatment of craniofacial pain using laser therapy has also been vastly researched. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the treatment protocol we use is efficacious in decreasing the painful symptoms of craniofacial pain immediately after treatment. 65 patients (age range 13 to 65) were treated with a dual wavelength NIR laser source. In this Multiwave Loked System (MLS®) laser the two emissions at 808 nm and 905 nm, respectively, with continuous chopped and pulsed delivery, are synchronized. TM joints, masseters, trapezius muscles, and cervical area were treated. The patients were asked to state their overall pain level pre and post treatment using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS). This was then converted into a percentage for ease of documentation. A comparison of pre and post VAS scales showed a 49.9% decrease in pain after the first treatment, 25.2% decrease after the second treatment and 9.0% decrease after the third treatment. In conclusion, the protocol used in the study provided a clinically relevant decrease in craniofacial pain, and a treatment duration of 8 minutes per session could be adapted to the normal clinical setting.