The effect of MLS Laser Therapy in élite football players affected by muscles injuries: a controlled clinical trial

Galanti G., Stefani L., Iacchi A., Lonero L., Moretti A.
Energy for Health [10] 2013

Muscle injuries are frequent in élite football players, with a percentage of 30-40% of all injuries. The 22% of total injuries are muscular relapses. The focus of this study was to evaluate how the laser therapy could modify the recovery time in élite football player. The treatments have been performed with a Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser. The sample group of football players was divided into two groups: the first group has been subjected to the standard rehabilitation program without MLS laser irradiation, the second group has been treated with the new rehabilitation program that included laser therapy.
We compared the average injury’s duration in the two groups to establish the efficacy of the MLS laser treatment in accelerating rehabilitation. In spite of a positive trend observed in the laser-treated group, which showed a decrease of the recovery time on the basis of the lesions considered, the difference in comparison with the control group was not statistically significant, also due to the low number of patients considered.
Therefore, the results suggest that laser therapy could be useful to shorten the recovery time after muscle injury, but further studies with a larger number of cases are required to statistically demonstrate the efficacy of the MLS laser therapy.