Low-level laser therapy improves early healing of medial collateral ligament injuries in rats

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 556-560

  Bayat, Mohammad ^a   Delbari, Ali ^b   Almaseyeh, Mohammad Ali ^a   Sadeghi, Yousef ^c   Bayat, Maryam ^d   Reziae, Fatemesadat ^e  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Avicenna Hospital   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e Rojan Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; LIGAMENTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURGERY; TENDONS;

ENERGY DENSITIES; LASER THERAPIES; MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENTS; TENDON HEALING;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; HEALING; HELIUM NEON LASER; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; KNEE SURGERY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT, KNEE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 30044437120     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2005.23.556     Document Type: Article

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