Cold Laser Therapy
Though light has been used since ancient times as a method of healing, it has only been in the last few decades where developments in quantum physics and the advent of the laser brought multi-radiant light therapy to the fore. Russia is the world's leader in the field of laser therapy and the technology we use today in our office has its roots in Russian Sports Medicine.
Laser was first used in the medical field as a focused, high energy beam with photo thermal effects in which tissues of the body were literally vaporized by the intense heat! Cold Laser Therapy is completely the opposite of the destructive high heat energy beam lasers of old. Cold Laser Therapy stimulates healing in the tissues in much the same way that sunlight encourages growth in plants. Instead of "photo thermal effects" cold lasers create "photobiostimulatory effects". Cold Laser Therapy is now a treatment of choice for the technologically advanced clinic such as NOVA Headache & Chronic Pain Center in the treatment of both chronic and acute pain.
Cold laser therapy is used for persons suffering from back and neck pain, musculoskeletal pain, joint pain associated with arthritis, fibromyalgia, tendonitis, bursitis, neuropathy, achilles tendon pain, migraine headaches, sprains and strains, carpal tunnel and other associated pains. Cold laser therapy also treats conditions such as TMJ, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and other inflammatory and scarring conditions.
Cold laser therapy increases serotonin levels which lowers pain sensitivity and allows the body to heal itself by stimulating metabolic activity at the cellular level. Cold laser therapy is non-thermal and noninvasive. The clinical effects of cold laser include:
- Activation of RNA/DNA Synthesis
- Increases cell metabolism in the form of ATP production
- Improves microcirculation
- Accelerates collagen synthesis and reduces fibrous tissue formation
- Reduces inflammation
- Reduces edema
- Reduces pain
- Stimulates T-Cell production
- Increases levels of prostoglandins and serotonin
