Efeito do laser terapêutico na cicatrização tendinosa: estudo experimental em ratos. / Effect of therapeutic laser in tendon healing: study experimental in rats.

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2002

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Low-potency laser therapy has been used as a means of minimizing the hazardous effects of inflammation and accelerating healing in damaged tissues. This paper aims at observeving the alterations caused by diode AsGa (904nm), laser in the calcaneal tendon of rats. Thirty 235g (average weight) Wistar rats were divided into 2 groups – one with 20 and other with 10 animals, all of which underwent right calcaneal tendon tenotomy. One group started laser treatment at a dosege of 4 J/cm 2 24hours after surgery, the other being used as control. The punctual method was employed and the appliance pen kept in direct contact with animal s skin. Both groups were divided into subgroups, the animals of which were sacrificed in different times – on the 8 th and 15 th postoperative day, respectively. The tendon was excised and submitted to histology analysis using light microscopy, which revealed the presence of inflammatory cells, fibroblasts, vascularization and collagen deposition. There was a statistically significant difference (p <0.05) between the control and the treatment as far as collagen deposition at the presence of inflammatory cells are concerned. This study suggests that laser therapy accelerates healing in calcanean tenotomy in rats by increase collagen deposition both in the early and late parts of the treatment.

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tenotomia tenotomy cicatrização laser healing

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