Herpich, Carolina Marciela http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4671-6031
Leal-Junior, Ernesto Cesar Pinto
Politti, Fabiano
de Paula Gomes, Cid André Fidelis
dos Santos Glória, Igor Phillip
de Souza Amaral, Maitê de Freitas Rocha
Herpich, Graciela
de Azevedo, Ludmila Menezes Alves
de Oliveira Gonzalez, Tabajara
Biasotto-Gonzalez, Daniela Aparecida
Funding for this research was provided by:
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Article History
Received: 30 January 2019
Accepted: 2 July 2019
First Online: 19 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: The present randomized, sham-controlled, double-blind clinical trial received approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee of University Nove de Julho, São Paulo, Brazil (certificate number: 42264715.0.0000.5511), and the protocol was registered with ExternalRef removed (NCT02839967). This clinical trial was conducted with patients referred from the Department of Physical Therapy of the University Nove de Julho. All volunteers received clarifications regarding the objectives and procedures of the study and those who agreed to participate signed a statement of informed consent.
: Teacher Ernesto Cesar Pinto Leal-Junior receives research support from Multi Radiance Medical (Solon, OH, USA), a laser device manufacturer; he did not have any participation in data collection or data analysis. The remaining authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.