The new findings for neck pain. Healing neck pain is usually done with physiotherapy, massage and pain-reducing medication. But now a new method with laser therapy proved more effective treatment for neck pain. A study showed that therapy with low-level radiation is safe to reduce neck pain.

This research was chaired by Dr Robert Chow from the Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney, Australia. A total of 820 people treated for neck pain become participants for this study. Researchers using a points scale to determine differences between treatments using laser and using ordinary light.

"Laser therapy is effective against non-specific pain arising from muscles and joints where the cause is still not too clear," Jan said M. Bjordal, a professor of physiotherapy at Bergen University College, Norway, as quoted by HealthDay.

There are two tests for acute neck pain: the group given laser light and ordinary light. The first group received low-level laser therapy in which the radiation beam of infrared light focused on the indicated pain in the neck area. As a result, acquired 70 percent of patients reported decreased pain.

While the group given two ordinary rays did not change pain.

It also conducted experiments on people suffering from chronic neck pain. Patients who received laser treatment say four times the usual neck pain continue to arise to be diminished, and there are 20 points in the neck who experienced pain reduction after treatment with the laser.

Results from low-level laser therapy is more advantageous than with other therapies that are used widely. Especially with the intervention farmakologisnya rare side effects and is effective for reducing pain in the neck.

Pain in the neck is expected to become an important medical problem in some countries, so that does not require maintenance medications and has no side effects would be more interesting. But the use of laser therapy as a treatment of neck pain should also be carefully and clearly what level of radiation is safe.

Drug regulatory authorities and the United States Food Administration (FDA) has approved this laser device to treat neck pain, this agreement shows that the technology is safe for use as a treatment.