Effects of diode laser irradiation on superficial blood flow in college sumo wrestlers: A preliminary study

Laser Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 83-86

  Saito, Kazuo ^a   Ogawa, Mitsuya ^a   Matsumoto, Shigeru ^a   Katagiri, Tomomi ^b   Kubota, Junichiro ^c   Ohshiro, Toshio ^d   Tsukamoto, Toshiaki ^e   Okumura, Toshiki ^e   Nakaji, Shigeyuki ^e   Umeda, Takashi ^e  

^a NIPPON SPORT SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c Kubota Junichiro Clinic   (Japan)

^d Japan Medical Laser Laboratory   (Japan)

^e HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GaAlAs diode laser; laser speckle flowmetry; muscle tone; sumo wrestlers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016770454     PISSN: 08985901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5978/islsm.14.83     Document Type: Article

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