Cold Laser Therapy
Albert Einstein proposed this way back in 1917. The use of low-level focused light waves as a therapy to heal tissue sounded like something straight out of a science fiction novel. But, just like most of his brilliant ideas... Einstein was WAY ahead of his time and everyone laughed at him.
Anyway, it was 43 years after Einstein's prediction that he was proven right and low-level light was first developed into a therapy, In 1960 Hungarian surgeon Endre Mester first reported his experience using laser light to treat non-healing infections and inflammations (swelling) in rats.
Mester reported a 70% success rate treating these infections, which led to the development of a science he called "laser biosimulation" or the stimulation of the local immune system.Today there is an entire scientific field devoted to this subject called photobiology -- the study of how light affects living things. Since 1967, more than 2,000 clinical studies on cold lasers have been published worldwide.
Light comes in a variety of forms. The light that we see is the visible part of the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. Just picture a rainbow, The light that is visible to us is a specific range of colors in that spectrum... but not the whole spectrum.
Other parts of the spectrum are not visible, such as the ultra-violet light that tans (or burns) your skin.
Low-level laser is compressed light of a wavelength from the cold red part of the spectrum. That is how it gets the name "cold-laser." The cold laser is very different from natural light. When natural light hits your skin it produces heat that can damage your skin. Since a cold laser is one color, it travels in a straight line, is a single wavelength, and its beam can he concentrated in a small area... it can penetrate the skin without heat, without damage to your skin... or... any known side effects.
In reality, there are two types of medical lasers: High power and low power. High power lasers are used to cut through tissue while low power lasers stimulate tissue repair and healing.
Cold laser therapy is an application of red and near-infrared light over an injured area to improve soft tissue healing and relieve both chronic and acute pain. Non-heat producing, or "cold", laser light energy directs light energy to the body's cells without injuring them.
"Cold" laser light dramatically boosts the body's natural healing response.
Near infrared light waves penetrate the deepest of all the visible light waves... cold laser therapy optimizes these positive healing effects in the body. Cold laser therapy:
- Relieves acute and chronic pain
- 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 (swelling)
