Abstract

GONZALEZ ROIG, JORGE LUIS; GUTIERREZ ALVAREZ, ANDRÉS  and  ROSSI PICHARDO, JUANA. Comparative study between laser and infrared rays in the treatment of cervical pain. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1997, vol.11, n.1-2, pp.72-75. ISSN 0864-215X.

Two groups of patients with chronic cervical pain were studied. Each ot them was composed of 90 patients of both sexes aged between 21 and 76. The case-base study was treated with low power laser, and the control group with infrared rays. There was statistically significant improvement (p < 0.05) among patients who received laser on comparing the two groups. Patients from the case-base study were distributed into 3 subgroups, I, II, and III, of 30 patients each. The first one was under treatment with a combination of helium-neon and infrared laser, the second one with helium-neon laser, and the third one with infrared laser. Highly significant differences were observed (p < 0.01) among the patients treated with combined laser on comparing the results obtained in every subgroup.

Keywords : CERVICO-BRACHIAL NEURALGIA [radio-therapy]; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; INFRARED RAYS [therapeutic use]; LASER RAYS [therapeutic use].