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after injury and may continue up to four or six weeks. Pain and tenderness to touch usually diminish or go away completely during this phase. This is due to scar formation over the injury site (Prentice, 2005). The final phase, maturation-remodeling phase, is a long term process. In total it can take several years to complete. This phase requires the scar tissue to realign and remodel according to the tensile forces that are applied to it. With increased forces and stress, the collagen fibers that make up the scar realign so that they run parallel to the lines of tension. The tissue will then gradually take on normal appearance and function, although it will never be as strong as the original tissue. This process usually begins after about three weeks (Prentice, 2005). Light therapy is suggested to have biostimulating and analgesic effects through direct irradiation without causing thermal response (Kulekcioglu, 2003). In a study done by Kulekcioglu, (2003) it was found that there was a significant reduction in pain in the treatment group and the effects lasted for one full month. The researchers used a GaAs laser with a wavelength of 904 nm for treatment on patients with temporomandibular joint pain. At the end of the study they found that significantly more improvement was noted in the active treatment group in all parameters (Pain intensity, number of tender points, number of joint sounds, active mouth opening, passive mouth opening, right lateral motion, and left lateral motion). A study was done on cancer patients who when put through their chemotherapy regime ended up with painful sores in their mouths. While this is a common occurrence in cancer patients, the study was done to see if LT would be helpful for pain management. The results of the study were as follows: The pain measurement results verify significantly lower pain after daily laser treatment compared with the pain before 14PDF Image | Light Therapy on Pain and Swelling vs Collegiate Athletes
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