The therapeutic benefits of laser therapy:
Rapid cell growth: accelerates cellular reproduction and growth for faster wound healing. i.e. sports injuries and repetitive movement injuries.
Faster wound healing: stimulates fibroblast development and accelerates collagen synthesis in damaged tissues. Collagen is the essential protein used to repair damaged tissue. It is the substance that holds cells together and has a high degree of elasticity.
Increases metabolic activity: Causing higher outputs of specific enzymes, greater oxygen and food particle loads for cells thus causing greater production of ATP (energy). ATP is the major carrier of energy to all cells. Increases in ATP allow cells to accept nutrients faster and get rid of waste products faster by increasing the energy level in the cell resulting in faster and better wound healing.
Reduced fibrous tissue: reduces formation of scar tissue, by increasing collagen production less scar tissue is formed at the damaged site. Scar tissue has little elasticity.
Reduce the excitability of nervous tissue: Laser light speeds nerve cell processes, which may decrease numbness, associated with certain conditions. The photons of light energy enter the body as negative ions, this calls upon the body to send positive ions like calcium and others to go to the area being treated. These ions assist in firing the nerves thereby relieving pain.
Anti-inflammatory action: Cold laser or LLLT helps to reduce swelling to offer enhanced joint mobility following injury.
Increased lymphatic system activity: Edema, which is the swelling or natural splinting process of the body, has two basic components. The first is the liquid part, which can be evacuated by the blood system. The second is comprised of proteins, which have to be evacuated by the lymphatic system. Research has shown that the lymph vessel diameter and the flow of the lymph system can be doubled with the use of laser therapy. The venous diameter and the arterial diameters can also be increased. This means that both parts of edemas (liquid and protein) can be evacuated at a much faster rate to relieve swelling and thus reduce pain.
Increased phagocytosis: The process of cleaning up dead or degenerated cells. "Clean up" must take place before healing can occur.
Low level laser therapy is not harmful. Cold lasers have insufficient strength to damage cells and have been used for tissue stimulation with 30 years of clinical use showing no adverse effects.
Why is Cold Laser Used?
Cold Laser has been primarily used in the treatment of :
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Does Cold Laser therapy work?
Yes and there is over twenty years of experience and data research from all over the world to support this.
How does Cold Laser therapy work?
Bio stimulation = more oxygen = more circulation = more healing potential
Laser light exposure at certain wavelengths near 635nm stimulate cellular mitochondria (the energy generators) of our cells, to produce more Adenosine Tri Phosphate (ATP). Hemoglobin, our red blood cells pigment absorbs light best at 650nm wavelength and the most effective "bio stimulation" wavelength has been found to be 632-635nm for human tissue.