What
health problems may benefit from Laser Therapy?
SOFT
TISSUE INJURIES
- tendonitis
- Sprains,
Strains
- Back
and Neck Pain
- Repetitive
Strain Injury
- Carpal
Tunnel Syndrome
- Trigger
Points
- Plantar
Fascitis
- Tennis
Elbow
- Muscle
Spasms
- Shoulder
Pain
- Knee
pain
DEGENERATIVE
CONDITIONS
- Rheumatoid
Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
NEUROGENIC PAIN
- Sciatica
- Fibromyalgia
- Post
Traumatic Injury
- Trigeminal
Neuralgia
- Radiculitis
- Shingles
- Herniated
Disc
- Brachial
Neuralgia
Biostimulation
including Improved metabolism & Increase of cell metabolism
• Improved blood circulation and vasodilatation
• Analgesic effect
• Anti-inflammatory and anti- edematous effects
• Stimulation of wound healing
- Benefits
of Laser therapy to Users
- Relieves
acute and chronic pains
- Increases
the speed, quality and tensile strength of tissue repair
- Increases
blood supply
- Stimulates
the immune system
- Stimulates
nerve function
- Develops
collagen and muscle tissue
- Helps
generate new and healthy cells and tissue
- Promotes
faster wound healing and clot formation
- Reduces
inflammation
KNOWN
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF LASER THERAPY- (LT)
Clinical studies and trials of laser therapy technology
indicate the following beneficial effects of laser light
therapy on tissues and cells:
1. Accelerated Tissue Repair And Cell Growth. Photons of
light from lasers penetrate deeply into tissue and accelerate
cellular reproduction and growth. The laser light increases
the energy available to the cell so that the cell can take
on nutrients faster and get rid of waste products. As a
result of exposure to laser light, the cells of tendons,
ligaments and muscles are repaired faster.
2. Faster Wound Healing. Laser light stimulates fibroblast
development (fibroblasts are the building blocks of collagen,
which is predominant in wound healing) in damaged tissue.
Collagen is the essential protein required to replace old
tissue or to repair tissue injuries. As a result, LT is
effective on open wounds and burns.
3. Reduced Fibrous Tissue Formation. LT reduces the formation
of scar tissue following tissue damage from cuts, scratches,
burns or surgery.
4. Anti-Inflammation. Laser light therapy has an anti-edemic
effect as it causes vasodilation, but also because it activates
the lymphatic drainage system (drains swollen areas). As
a result, there is a reduction in swelling caused by bruising
or inflammation.
5. Anti-Pain (Analgesic). Laser therapy has a high beneficial
effect on nerve cells which block pain transmitted by these
cells to the brain and which decreases nerve sensitivity.
Also, due to less inflammation, there is less edema and
less pain. Another pain blocking mechanism involves the
production of high levels of pain killing chemicals such
as endorphins and enkephlins from the brain and adrenal
gland.
6. Improved Vascular Activity. Laser light will significantly
increase the formation of new capillaries in damaged tissue
that speeds up the healing process, closes wounds quickly
and reduces scar tissue. Additional benefits include acceleration
of angiogenesis, which causes temporary vasodilatation,
an increase in the diameter of blood vessels.
7. Increased Metabolic Activity. Laser therapy creates higher
outputs of specific enzymes, greater oxygen and food particle
loads for blood cells.
8. Improved Nerve Function. Slow recovery of nerve functions
in damaged tissue can result in numbness and impaired limbs.
Laser light will speed up the process of nerve cell reconnection
and increase the amplitude of action potentials to optimize
muscle action.
9. Immunoregulation. Laser light has a direct effect on
immunity status by stimulation of immunoglobines and lymphocytes.
LT is absorbed by chromophones (molecule enzymes) that react
to laser light. The enzyme flavomono-nucleotide is activated
and starts the production of ATP (adenosine-tri-phosphate),
which is the major carrier of cell energy and the energy
source for all chemical reactions in the cells.
10. Trigger Points and Acupuncture Points. Laser therapy
stimulates muscle trigger points and acupuncture points
on a non-invasive basis providing musculoskeletal pain relief.
