Carol, MIME didn't come up with anything related tp diabetes periph. neuropathy.
anodyne therapy: On the darker side of this subject, it appears that some physical therapists are using this modality to overbill insurance carriers. In actuality, anybody including Chiropractors, therapists and other health care professionals can buy the system and start billing medicare and other insurances for the service in the office setting. Although, reimbursement is on the order of four dollars per treatment, treatments are often billed as multiple sessions that can include 3 to 5 treatments a day, 3 to 5 days a week. However, therapists and some scrupulous practioners are not banking on the treatments alone. Some practitioners will even buy the unit at cost and sell it to unsuspecting neuropathics in an effort to turn a profit. The unit costs roughly $3000, and patients are willing to pay every cent , just to get some relief of neuropathy. Its a large price to pay for placebo. Aetna Health Care recently reported in November 2005: There is no evidence that infrared light therapy is any more effective than other heat modalities in the symptomatic relief of musculoskeletal pain. Glasgow (2001) reported on the results of a randomized controlled clinical trial of low-level infrared therapy in 24 subjects with experimentally induced muscle soreness, and found no significant differences between treatment and placebo groups. There are no published studies of the effectiveness of low-level infrared therapy for treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The case series presented by the manufacturer of the Anodyne System on its web site have not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. Is this BOGUS ???? YES F
