Effects of laser therapy on chronic low back pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

CHRONIC pain treatment; LUMBAR pain; ONLINE information services; COMPUTER software; META-analysis; INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems; MEDICAL databases; MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems; CONFIDENCE intervals; MEDICAL lasers; SYSTEMATIC reviews; TREATMENT effectiveness; COMPARATIVE studies; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; QUESTIONNAIRES; MEDLINE; PAIN management

The article presents the discussion on non-specific low back pain being referred to as low back pain. Topics include available for non-specific chronic low back pain containing analgesics and nondrug treatments such as exercise, physical, psychosocial, and multidisciplinary therapies; and laser therapy is associated with vasodilation, transcription factor activation, cell proliferation, angiogenesis, and collagen synthesis.