Green Light Exposure Improves Pain and Quality of Life in Fibromyalgia Patients: A Preliminary One-Way Crossover Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Fibromyalgia is a functional pain disorder in which patients suffer from widespread pain and poor quality of life. Fibromyalgia pain and its impact on quality of life are not effectively managed with current therapeutics. Previously, in a preclinical rat study, we demonstrated that exposure to green light-emitting diodes (GLED) for 8 hours/day for 5 days resulted in antinociception and reversal of thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity associated with models of injury-related pain. Given the safety of GLED and the ease of its use, our objective is to administer GLED as a potential therapy to patients with fibromyalgia.

Design

One-way crossover clinical trial.

Setting

United States.

Method

We enrolled 21 adult patients with fibromyalgia recruited from

SUBMITTER: Martin L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7861466 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature