Most people are familiar with the warm lasers that are typically used in surgery to cut and/ or cauterize (stop bleeding). Warm lasers burn. Cold lasers are used for mobilizing fat and more importantly, to treat all kinds of disease processes at the cellular level. Cold laser therapy allows for increased energy production in the cells and increased communication between cells.
Laser therapy works on many different levels, resolving inflammation, re-establishing the neuromuscular system and even resolving the more severe underlying issues such as tendon or ligament damage. Laser therapy, when properly is a true beneficial and subtle instrument for a host of diseases. Cold level lasers are used by professional athletes to speed up healing after injuries, pre and post surgical treatments to aid in healing to produce a meaninful outcome and to treat chronic pain syndromes to avoid surgical procedures.
Laser therapy works at the cellular level whether or not a select tissue area has endured an injury. Laser irradiation should not be limited to the neuromuscular condition only. Laser irradiation possesses the uique phenomenon topromote cellular stabilization, proper cell function, extracellular communication, gene expression and replication (healing).
Any inflammatory disorder, pain, discomfort, invasive procedure is a candidate for laser therappy as a adjunctive therapuetic regimen. laser therapy has been explored by the scientific comunity (although further research is warranted) and the current literature parovides a solid foundation ouatlining athae benefits and limitations of laser therapy.
Here are some of the ways the cold laser is used;
- Neck and shoulder pain
- Arm and foarearm pain
- Wrist pain
- Knees and foot
- Hip and leg pain
- Acute and chronic back pain
- Inflammatory diseases
- Migraine headaches
- Acute injuries and wound healing
- TMJ pain