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The Clinical Effects of Laser Acupuncture on Hospitalized Patients With Severe COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial. | LitMetric

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  • * Results showed that LA led to a significant reduction in IL6 levels and shorter hospital stays compared to the control group.
  • * Notably, there were no deaths in the intervention group, suggesting LA could be a safe and cost-effective complementary therapy for severe COVID-19 treatment.

Article Abstract

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was extended to the entire population in China and around the world, and its mortality rate was about 3.4%. The impact of laser therapy on chronic respiratory diseases has been shown in previous studies. This study was aimed at examining the effects of laser acupuncture (LA) on patients with severe COVID-19. In the present study, 60 patients with a positive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test were assigned to the intervention and control groups (30 patients in each group). The intervention group was treated with LA, that is, laser light with low energy on acupuncture points, once a day for five consecutive days. The participants' mean age in the intervention and control groups was 48.96±12.65 and 53.16±12.28 respectively; 70% of the patients were male and 30% of them were female. IL6 had a significant reduction in the intervention group ( value=0.038) in comparison with the control group ( value=0.535). Furthermore, the mean admission time in the control group was significantly higher than that in the intervention group ( value=0.047). However, the mortality rate in the intervention group was zero, but three patients in the control group died. Our study showed that LA can be used as supportive therapy for routine treatment in patients with severe COVID-19. Moreover, due to LA safety and it's low cost, it could be recommended as an adjuvant to conventional therapy in patients interested in treating their disease with such a method.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10423955PMC
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