The effects of laser treatment in Tendinopathy: A systematic review

Abstract

Tendons have as main function transmit forces from themuscle to the bones. Tendinopathy is an inflammatoryprocess that occurs in and around the tendon, when theseare affected by some injury. Low level laser therapyconsists in a local application of a monochromatic, coherentand short wavelength light. Its use began in 60's andsince then several benefits for tendon injuries have beenreported. The objective of this study is to collect the mostrecent studies about the use of laser on the tendinopathytreatment. We performed searches on the following electronicdatabases PubMed, Medline, CAPES journals portaland LILACS. After the analysis, we selected three articlesthat showed that the use of low-level laser therapy, comparedto placebo, is effective in treatment of tendinopathy.Despite the need for more studies about this theme, thelow-level laser therapy demonstrates consistent results inthe treatment of tendinopathy.