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Can laser beams ease your aching knees?

NCT ID NCT06654739

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Paused
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Ongoing This study
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Stopped early
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Not a trial. This treatment can be requested outside a study, case by case, for people who qualify.
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Not a trial. The treatment could once be requested outside a study, but no longer can.
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First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 2 times

Summary

This study tests whether adding laser therapy to standard physiotherapy and exercise reduces knee osteoarthritis pain more than a sham (fake) laser plus exercise. Sixty-four adults with knee osteoarthritis will receive either real or sham laser treatments twice a week for six weeks. The main goal is to measure pain changes using a standard pain scale.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance
laser therapy (LightForce® Therapy Lasers) plus physiotherapy/exercise
What this could lead to
If it works, this could offer a non-drug, non-surgical option to ease knee osteoarthritis pain.
What could go wrong
This is a small, early-stage study with only 64 participants. The laser may not prove more effective than sham treatment, and results may not apply to all patients.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

64 people

The number who actually took part.

Started

Nov 2024

Expected to finish

Mar 2026

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

A company

The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

18 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.

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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patient male or female with age ≥18 years old * Patient with radiographic diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis (as confirmed by x- ray or CT scan) to be treated by LightForce® Therapy Lasers according its indications. * Patient with Kellgren and Lawrence grade 2-3 unilateral or bilateral knee osteoarthritis * Patient suffering from knee osteoarthritis pain for more than 6 months prior to enrollment * Pain (either persistent or during activities) score reported by the subject at baseline ≥ 40 mm measured on VAS * Patient able to provide written informed consent * Patient with BMI ≤30 kg/m2 * For FRANCE ONLY: To be affiliated to the social security system or to be beneficiary of such system Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with musculoskeletal pathological conditions not to be treated with/contraindication to the use of LightForce® Therapy Lasers according to its intended use and indications * Patients who are taking drugs that have heat or light sensitive contraindications, such as but not limited to certain types of steroids * Patients who are administered with corticosteroids, should discontinue the treatment at least 2 weeks prior to study treatment start * Pregnant females or females of childbearing potentially planning to become pregnant during the study participation * Patients who had inflammatory arthritis (i.e. rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis) * Patients who underwent intra-articular injection (Ialuronic acid, platelet rich plasma or corticosteroids) in the knee in the last 6 months * Patients who have a disease that would limit their participation in exercises (i.e. severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe heart failure, cerebrovascular event history) * Patients who have hip or ankle/foot joint pathology that might interfere with participation in exercises/knee recovery * Patients with a diagnosis of active cancer * Patients with tattoos covering more than 30% of the area to be treated with LightForce® Therapy Lasers * Patients who are mentally or physically incapacitated * Patient participating in other clinical study or has completed a clinical study less than 30 days prior to enrollment * Patients with other musculoskeletal problems of the knee joint such as tendon or ligament injury, recent surgery, recent fracture, or recent meniscus injury and/or undergoing to specific physiotherapy for these ("recent" is defined as within 30 days prior to enrollment) * Patients with other clinically significant co-morbidities that make the patient unsuitable for study participation, at the discretion of the investigator.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Cabinet Allaire

    Le Havre, 76600, France

  • Cabinet d'Ostéopathie

    Grésy-sur-Aix, 73100, France

  • Casertafisio

    Caserta, Italy

  • Fisioterapia Carioni

    Milan, Italy

  • Fisioterapia EUR

    Roma, Italy

  • Fisioterapia Gardenie

    Roma, Italy

  • Indergaard Physiotherapy

    Leeds, United Kingdom

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