INTRODUCING LOW LEVEL LIGHT THERAPY
At Center for Nutritional Healing, with Nutrition Response Testing® we routinely find scars on the skin from past injuries, surgeries, piercings, and/or tattoos are major stressors on the body’s nervous system, organs, glands, and/or musculoskeletal system. We often use low level light therapy (also known as red light, near-infrared, and photobiomodulation therapy) to handle those scars to improve the flow of energy through scar tissue which had been blocked, thus resolving the problems they are causing. A five-minute low level light therapy session per scar is a good start. Several more treatments may be needed. Whether these scars are close to the organ in trouble, or distant (as in a knee scar connected to a frozen shoulder), the related scars need to be properly and thoroughly handled whenever they show up for true healing to take place.
What Is Low Level Light Therapy?
Low level light therapy is the application of red or near infrared light over injuries or wounds to improve soft tissue healing and relieve both acute and chronic pain. Low-level light therapy uses cold (sub-thermal) laser light energy to direct bio-stimulative light energy to the body’s cells without injuring or damaging them in any way. The therapy is precise and accurate; and offers safe and effective treatment for a wide variety of conditions. The energy range of low level laser light lies between 1 and 500 mW (milliwatts) and this is what we use at Center for Nutritional Healing. While for surgical lasers the energy range lies between 3,000 and 10,000 mW.
How does it work?
Low level lasers supply energy to the body in the form of non-thermal photons of light. Light is transmitted through the skin’s layers (the dermis, epidermis and the subcutaneous tissue or tissue fat under the skin) at all wavelengths in the visible range. However, light waves in the near infrared ranges penetrate the deepest of all light waves in the visible spectrum. When low level laser light waves penetrate deeply into the skin, they optimize the immune responses of our blood. This has both anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects. It is a scientific fact that light transmitted to the blood in this way has positive effects throughout the whole body, supplying vital oxygen and energy to every cell.
the physiological effects of low level light therapy
Biostimulation
* Improved metabolism
* Increase of cell metabolismImproved blood circulation and vasodilatation
Analgesic effect
Anti-inflammatory and anti-edematous (swelling from excessive accumulation of fluids) effects
Stimulation of wound healing
how does low level light therapy benefit users?
Facilitates energy flow through scar tissue
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
Interested in learning more? Read our blog, Scars - What’s the Big Deal? Request an appointment or schedule a complimentary Discovery Call with our owner/nutritionist Cindy Harrington. Contact us today.
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