Table 2.

Summary of Laser Therapy Parameters of Clinical Trials I

Author	Patient's properties	Irradiation location	Total sessions/sessions per weeks	Co-interventions	AD
Meireles32	RA	Wrist and finger joint	16/2	Analgesics	X
Basford33	OA	Thumb joints	9/3	Drugs*	X
Brosseau34	OA	Hand	18/3	Drugs	X
Stelian35	OA knee	Both sides of the knee	20/10*	Drugs	O
Bulow36	OA	Periarticular tender points	9/3	Drugs	X
Gur37	OA	Knee joint	10/5	Drugs Exercise	O
Tascioglu38	OA	Knee joint	10/5	Analgesics	X
Hegedus39	OA	Epicondyle of femur Knee joint gap Edge of the tendon	8/2	Not allowed	O
Kulekcioglu41	TMD	TMJ Muscles related to TMD	15/-	Exercise	X
Venancio42	TMD (arthrogenous origin)	TMJ	6/2	-	X
Cetiner43	TMD (myogenic origin)	TMJ	10/5	-	O
Emshoff44	TMD	TMJ	20/2∼3	-	X
Santos45	TMD	Joint capsule	1/1	-	O
Bingol50	Shoulder pain	Muscles related with shoulder pain Anterior and posterior faces of the capsule	10/5	Analgesics Exercise	X
Stergiouslas51	Frozen shoulder	Shoulder area	12/1∼2	Exercise	O
Ozdemir40	OA (neck pain)	Neck area	10/-	-	O
Chow52	Neck pain	Neck area	14/2*	Drugs	O
Klein46	LBP (chronic)	Spine Fascia Ligament	12/3	Exercise	X
Soriano47	LBP	Low back area	10/5	Not allowed	O
Basford48	LBP	L2 to S3 paraspinal tissues	12/3	Analgesics NSAIDs	O
Djavid2	LBP	Paravertebral region	12/2	Exercise	O
Ay49	LBP disk herniation	Paraspinal tissues of the disk spaces	15/5	Hot pack	X

OA, osteoarthritis; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; TMD, temporomandibular disorder; TMJ, temporomandibular joint; LBP, Low back pain. ^*, inferred values as not explicitly described; −, no descriptions or failed to infer; AD, author's decision on effectiveness (O, effective; X, ineffective). In the case of Stelian 1992³⁵, number of treatments per week was not described, but the author described that the treatment was applied twice a day for 10 days.