LASER THERAPY
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Facts about Laser Therapy
Class IV laser therapy has demonstrated the ability to significantly accelerate and enhance the body's natural defense and repair components in the presence of injury, inflammation and certain disease processes through the action of photo-stimulation of light reactive biological receptors (chromophores) in the body,. Laser therapy is consistent in providing pain relief, reducing injury damage and loss of function,by modifying the effects and limiting the duration of inflammation, as well as enhancing specific repair and healing processes, and facilitating more rapid repair and producing stronger healed tissue structures.
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Multiple clinical studies have noted the following results of Laser therapy:
- Increased collagen production
- Enhanced nerve regeneration
- Increased vasodilatation
- Reduced inflammatory duration
- Increased cell metabolism
- Increased pain threshold
- Increased cell membrane potential
- Reduced edema magnitude
- Increased microcirculation
- Increased tissue and bone repair
- Increased lymphatic response
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How Laser Therapy Works
As the light receptive chromophores are irradiated with coherent laser light, energy transfers occur that stimulate more active levels of function and increased intracellular action in various tissues, both cellular and sub-cellular... Penetrating much deeper than other incoherent light wave forms, laser light activates increased mitochondrial ATP synthesis, produces increased mast cell inflammatory mitigation and stimulates increased Ca2+ ion presence and beneficial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. Through the action of photo bio-stimulation, oxidative metabolism is increased via cytochrome C oxidase and photosensitization of hemoglobin. Laser irradiation stimulates increased endorphin release and increased prostaglandin synthesis. Due to the powerful effect photo-stimulated enzymes exert, both localized and systemic cascade reactions occur that result in immunomodulation and inflammatory mitigation. Damaged skeletal, connective and neurological tissues and structures react with enhanced healing in the presence of laser irradiation as collagen synthesis and production, satellite cell presence and cellular metabolism are increased as a result of the light stimulation, and improved vascular, lymphatic and enzymatic activity.
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Conclusion
Indiana Spine Center Family Chiropractic offers a powerful laser delivering the deepest penetration, highest energy density, and largest beam size of any FDA cleared class IV Laser Therapy System available worldwide.
