Cold Laser Therapy

Laser Light Therapy

It has been known for years that light therapy promotes tissue repairs, even though the underlying mechanisms were not clear at that time. Research within the last forty years now shows that treatment with light promotes tissue repair by mechanisms that include increased blood flow, synthesis and secretion of RNA, DNA, enzymes, growth factors and associated proteins, increased metabolism, cell proliferation and migration as well as collagen alignment and maturation.

Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT), commonly known as “cold” laser, has been used worldwide to relieve pain, remove scars, heal wounds, regenerate nerves and solve addictions. On January 17th, 2002, the first U.S.  Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) company, Erchonia, received FDA clearance through clinical trial. The study took 100 patients complaining of neck and shoulder pain. Half were treated with a useless red light (placebo group), similar to that on a computer mouse or grocery check-out, and the other half received LLLT.

The treatment group beat the placebo group by 66%! That’s 66% faster relief and more complete relief, a remarkable margin. Such a study is known as “double blind” research, and is the gold standard for measuring the validity of a therapy. Similar issues have been passed by the FDA for carpal tunnel, wounds and scar tissue. There are over 2000 published studies on LLLT reporting zero negative side effects.

How Does it work?

Essentially, Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) causes tissues to heal faster – muscle, skin and nerve – 66% faster according to the above FDA study.

Specifically, LLLT works at the cell level. Human cells produce a chemical known as ATP (adenosine triphosphate) to run the body and heal tissue. All our body’s activities result from the use of ATP, it’s like gasoline to a car. LLLT stimulates a micro-structure within the cells called the mitochondria (nicknamed the “powerhouse” because it produces ATP) to produce slightly higher amounts of ATP. Thus with more ATP at the cell level, tissues heal fast and therefore relief comes quicker.

Conditions and Symptoms

As is true of many alternative therapies, you may receive alternate benefits to being treated with cold laser physical therapy, in addition to what you wanted fixed in the first place. This is because the ATP being produced is “systemic”, meaning although we’re focusing the laser on a particular area, the ATP is ultimately being sent throughout your entire body. The list of symptoms responding to LLLT is growing, and more valid research is being performed on a daily basis.

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