What Health Problems Benefit from Laser Therapy?
Biological Effects of Laser Therapy
How Does High Power Laser Therapy Compare with "Cold Laser" Therapy?
Research Studies on Laser Therapy
- Pain Relief
- Nerve Pain
- Arthritis Relief
- Connective Tissue Repair
- Tendonitis
- Soft Tissue
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- TMJ
- Wound Healing
About Laser Therapy:: How Does Laser Therapy Work?
Research biologists describe the healing process in the following way.
1. Reduced blood flow deprives human tissue of oxygen and glucose.
2. The powerhouse of the cell (the mitochondria) needs this oxygen and glucose to manufacture energy (ATP.)
Without ATP (adenosine triphosphate) the cell cannot function (e.g. a muscle cell cannot contract or relax, nerve cells cannot transmit vital signals) and it cannot repair components of the cell that have been damaged.
Simply stated,
NO OXYGEN + NO GLUCOSE ⇒ NO ENERGY ⇒ NO HEALING.
The Solution
Laser therapy bypasses the blood stream and delivers laser energy to light receptors (photoreceptors) within the mitochondria. The mitochondria accept this energy and use it to create ATP, which the cell can use to power the healing process.
LASER STIMULATION OF MITOCHONDRIA ⇒ ENERGY PRODUCTION (ATP) ⇒ HEALING
Treatment with the Avicenna Laser is pain-free. The patient experiences only a gentle warming spa-like sensation over the surface of the skin.
A Real World Analogy of How High Power Laser Therapy Works
Traumatic Injuries and Tissue Degeneration are similar to a bad car accident on the freeway where emergency crews must travel through heavy traffic before they can offer assistance. The freeway can be compared to the blood supply at the injury site and the emergency crew represents the body’s ability to heal itself. There are two primary challenges to the emergency workers, 1) the injured individuals can’t be helped until the traffic jam is cleared, and 2) the traffic can’t be cleared away until the damaged vehicles are removed. As you can see with this example it would likely take a very long time before rescue crews can help out.
This road block prevents oxygen and glucose from reaching the injury site which severely delays the production of energy needed for healing. In other words,
NO OXYGEN + NO GLUCOSE ⇒ NO ENERGY ⇒ NO HEALING.
However, in the real world we have a better option, Life Flight – a helicopter that bypasses the traffic and goes directly to the site of the accident to heal the sick and injured. The Cellular Medicine equivalent to Life Flight is Class IV High Power Laser Therapy.
Class IV High Power Laser Therapy does not rely upon the blood stream to deliver its benefit to injured nerves as in the case of oxygen, glucose, elements of the immune system and medications. Laser Therapy delivers the necessary energy directly to the powerhouses of the nerve cell (known as the mitochondria) to jump-start the healing process. The focused, high-energy light waves stimulate the mitochondria to produce the vitally important ATP. This photochemical process completely bypasses the arterial “highway” that was damaged as a result of the initial injury. In other words, the role of Laser Therapy in the healing process can be represented with the following simple formula:
LASER STIMULATION OF MITOCHONDRIA ⇒ ENERGY PRODUCTION (ATP) ⇒ HEALING
