Dr. Naglers valuation of the Low-Level-Laser-study Nakashima.

This information is from the Yuku social communities forum "Starting-self-administered-laser-treatment" of December 2010.

Mansi wrote:
To understand the real situation, we only need to have a look at the Nakashima Study, following at the bottom.
This study is in the arguments of the opponents of LLLT at position 1 and defined as a very good science and as to show that LLLT is not effective for the treatment of tinnitus.
We have not to be a medical to understand, that 6 minutes 60 mw LLLT once a week over total 4 times cannot change a T. This study is a bad joke.
Here has to come the first correction to get more clearance around the LLLT.
Mansi

Transmeatal low-power laser irradiation for tinnitus.
akashima T, Ueda H, Misawa H, Suzuki T, Tominaga M, Ito A, Numata S, Kasai S, Asahi K, Vernon JA, Meikle MB.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate effectiveness of 60-mW laser irradiation in the treatment of tinnitus.
STUDY DESIGN: Prospective, randomized double-blind study.
METHODS: This investigation included 68 ears in 45 patients with disabling unilateral or bilateral tinnitus. The active or placebo laser treatment was administered transmeatally once a week for 6 minutes. Laser irradiation was performed four times during a 4-week period. A questionnaire was administered to evaluate the loudness, duration, quality, and annoyance of tinnitus before and after irradiation. The loudness and pitch match for tinnitus were obtained, and distortion product otoacoustic emissions were also examined.
RESULTS: No significant difference was observed between the active and placebo laser groups with regard to outcome of loudness, duration, quality, and annoyance of tinnitus. In one patient who received active laser treatment, acute hearing deterioration occurred after the third irradiation.
CONCLUSION: Transmeatal low-power laser irradiation with 60 mW is not effective for the treatment of tinnitus.
PMID: 11981384 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

The answer of Dr. Nagler was the following:
Jack Vernon and Mary Meikle were co-investigators in that study. You can be sure that the doses were checked out carefully. You can be sure that the study was scientifically valid. And you can be sure that the study did not claim to demonstrate more than the data reveal.

We say to that:
How can someone say to 6 minutes LLLT a week: "the doses were checked out carefully"?
This doses are less than 1 % of the doses that Dr. Wilden uses.

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