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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / May 2005PHOTOTHERAPY
Hello everyone! Has anyone heard of Phototherapy? There's a web site www.mymedx.org... My Physical Therapist wants to try in on my knees.I have a parcial tear of the medial colateral ligament of the right knee,also a 3cm Bakers cyst in both of my knees,and a possible meniscus tear in left knee.I have RA and tried Plaqenil for 6 months,which didn't work,I've been on Methotrexate and 10 mg. of Prednisone for almost 4mos.Methotrexate isn't working.Does anyone know if Michigan Medicare and Medicaid cover drugs like Enbrel,Humira,Remecade,etc.? Any help would be appreciated,I am so miserable.Thanks! Carol > Hello everyone! Has anyone heard of Phototherapy? There's a web site Talk to your RD about it. IMO it looks like one of those deals that want to separate you from your money. Harv >>Hello everyone! Has anyone heard of Phototherapy? There's a web site > > Talk to your RD about it. IMO it looks like one of those deals that want > to separate you from your money. > Harv Reading their website it sounds about as effective as a heating pad and uses the same mechanism: warming things up. Reading some of the abstracts (full articles were conspicuously missing, leaving me to wonder if these things ever made it to peer reviewed journals) it seems about as effective as ultrasound for certain specific ailments. In terms of the RA abstract listed, they didn't compare it to anything other than placebo, which I found abit strange. They should have at least compared it with ultrasound. The whiplash study included no control group to account for placebo effects. You can give it a shot if you want, as it does appear that it MIGHT have some beneficial effects, but I'd be wary: I've seen nothing to indicate it's superiority to more common treatment modalities, such as ultrasound. Ari  Signaturespammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ Carol wrote: > Hello everyone! Has anyone heard of Phototherapy? > There's a web site ...... My last-born son had phototherapy for a blood disorder (blue baby) he was born with. From my wife's medical cyclopedic: phototherapy: Exposure to sunlight or to ultraviolet light for therapeutic purposes. One example is the treatment of neonatal jaundice, in which the jaundice infant is exposed to UV to decrease bilirubin levels in the bloodstream thus reducing the risk of bilirubin deposition in the brain. It also is used to treat some skin diseases. including cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and psoriasis, and to relieve the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder. photodynamic therapy: In ophthalmology, the use of laser- activated photosensitizing drugs to treat a variety of tumors and nonmalignant conditions such as age-related macular degeneration. > Carol wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > tumors and nonmalignant conditions such as age-related > macular degeneration. Those are different from the phototherapy being offeed by the proprietors of the website listed by the OP. Signaturespammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ > Those are different from the phototherapy being offeed by the > proprietors of the website listed by the OP. I strongly suspected they would be. <g> It sounded like someone taking an acceptable medical treatment and using it to line their pockets. When they bill insurance/Medicare, I wonder what disease they use to justify the treatment. ... The attention span of a computer is as long as its electrical cord. |
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