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- A study compared the effectiveness of Doctor Tecar TherapyTM to laser therapy for treating low back pain in 60 patients, who were split into two groups of 30.
- Both groups received 10 therapy sessions over two weeks and were evaluated for pain and disability at several points: before treatment, 2 weeks, 1 month, and 2 months after treatment.
- The Tecar group showed significant improvement in pain and disability at all follow-up points, particularly excelling compared to the laser group, which only demonstrated significant improvement at the 2-week follow-up.
Article Abstract
To compare the effectiveness of Doctor Tecar TherapyTM with that of laser therapy in the management of low back pain (LBP), a total of 60 patients with LBP were enrolled. The participants were randomly divided into two groups: a Tecar group (experimental group, 30 subjects), and a laser group (control group, 30 subjects). All the subjects received 10 sessions of therapy: one each day from Monday to Friday and the same again the following week. All the subjects were evaluated for pain (VAS) and disability (Roland and Morris score and Oswestry score) at baseline (T0), and 2 weeks (T1), 1 month (T2) and 2 months (T3) after the end of treatment. The pain and disability presented a trend to improvement over time in both groups. This improvement was statistically significant at all follow-ups (FUs) in the Tecar group but only at T1 for the Laser group (p less than 0.01). Comparing the two methods, there emerged a significant difference in favour of the Tecar group at T2 and T3 (p less than 0.01). The results show that Tecar therapy determined significant improvement already by the end of the treatment. Moreover, at the first and second month FUs, the Tecar therapy showed statistically better results than laser therapy.
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