Laser Treatment

Laser Treatment Overview

Low Level Laser Therapy
Research has demonstrated effects at cellular level, in animals and from clinical experience, but work continues into understanding exactly how laser therapy works. The key research questions today are not whether low level lasers have positive effects, but how the precise and multiple biological mechanisms combine to create the physiological effects and how best to achieve the particular effects sought in each of the wide range of relevant applications.

In the meantime LLLT is now widely used by healthcare professionals across the world who appreciate not only its effectiveness but its added advantages of being drug-free, pain-free, non-invasive and without unpleasant side effects. It is often less expensive than alternative treatments and has fewer contraindications than popular forms of electrotherapy, such as ultrasound.

Low Level Laser Therapy aims to biostimulate. Because of its low power nature, the effects are biochemical and not thermal and cannot cause heating and thereby damage to living tissue. Three distinct photobiological effects are known to occur when using Low Level Laser Therapy:

1. Healing growth factor response through:

• Increased ATP and protein synthesis
• Improved cell proliferation
• Change in cell membrane permeability to calcium up-take
  

2. Pain Relief through:

• Increased endorphin release
• Increased serotonin
• Suppression of nociceptor action
  

3. Immune system support through:

• Increasing levels of lymphocyte activity
• Photomodulation of blood

Low level laser therapy optimises the speed of repair in acute injuries but will also stimulate the body's repair processes in cases of non-healing or chronic conditions.

In addition, low level laser is used as an alternative medium in the practice of acupuncture:

Laser Acupuncture provides:

• An effective general needle-free alternative
• Distinct energising characteristics
• A complementary medium in the suite alongside needles and moxibustion.

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Practitioner Resources:

Low Level Laser Practitioners - AMP site