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The highest quality care with the use of natural medicine, acupuncture, and homeopathy
The highest quality care with the use of natural medicine, acupuncture, and homeopathy
Basically, three things happen during K-Laser treatment. First, infrared laser therapy treatment helps reduce pain, reduce inflammation, and enhance tissue healing—both in hard and soft tissues, including muscles, ligaments, or even bones.
When we look at the basic mechanism of how it works, we are enhancing the microcirculation. We are getting more red blood cells flowing to the area.
But it’s not just the arterial blood supply to the area; we are enhancing the venous and the lymphatic return from the area. We’re also increasing oxygenation of those tissues. We are stimulating the hemoglobin molecule to dump off oxygen at the treatment site, so we are increasing the oxygenation of those tissues.
Finally, the treatment stimulates the cytochrome oxidase enzyme in the cells’ mitochondria. This is really one of the key discoveries in the whole science of laser therapy. Specifically, injured cells are targeted because damaged cells are more readily accepting of photons of light, whereas healthy cells don’t need this extra energy.
By stimulating the cytochrome oxidase enzyme, we are utilizing that oxygen in the respiratory chain inside of the mitochondria, producing more ATP for that cell. So regardless of what kind of cell it is, it’s going to function at a higher level. Now, we are not turbocharging. We’re not making your body do anything that it could not normally do. We’re just facilitating the process. We are helping those cells produce the energy that they normally would, so they can function as they normally should.
The interaction that we’re getting in the body with the K-Laser is called a photochemical reaction. By shining that light on a tissue, we are getting that ATP energy produced.
The infrared wavelengths used in the K-Laser allow for targeting specific areas of the body. The K-Laser is unique in that it is the only Class 4 therapy laser that utilizes these four infrared wavelengths, allowing for deep penetration into the body to reach areas such as your back and hip (the K-Laser also has a 100-milliwatt, 660-nanometer visible red which, again, is excellent for superficial wounds):
• 660 nanometers – Targets cells in the skin to create healthy tissue that resists pathogens
• 800 nanometers penetrates the deepest, and is at a peak of absorption for the cytochrome oxidase enzyme
• 905 nanometers most efficiently targets the hemoglobin molecule
• 970 nanometers most efficiently stimulates microcirculation in the tissues
Try Infrared Laser Therapy BEFORE You Consider Surgery for Many Acute Injuries
You can have the best diet and exercise program in the world, but as most of us are painfully aware, it doesn’t take much to develop an injury from an accident that you were not responsible for. Many times, surgery will be recommended to repair or replace joints. There are certainly many times when surgery is appropriate and needs to be performed and we should be VERY grateful we have access to this tool, but more often than not it is inappropriately recommended because of lack of awareness of other effective options, including the healing power of lasers.
The laser is typically a tiny fraction of the cost of surgery and virtually has no side effects, unlike surgery. Class 4 laser therapy can be effectively combined with a number of other treatment modalities, including various soft tissue mobilization techniques. Ideally, your doctor would do the K-Laser treatment before they do those soft tissue techniques.
Examples of the types of injuries that this kind of laser therapy can be helpful for include:
• Acute injuries, such as strains, sprains, and shoulder injuries
• Repetitive-use injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome
• Traumatic injuries, such as post-motor vehicle accident with cervical strain/sprain
• Chronic issues such as frozen shoulder and arthritis
When we talk a little bit about how the laser works, one effect that we’re getting is vasodilation of the tissues and also a lot of release of the tissue irritants in the area. If we’re treating a patient that has a lot of myofascial trigger points, a lot of metabolic waste products, and we give them a K-Laser treatment, a couple of hours afterwards they might be a little bit sore. It’s absolutely not any tissue damage going on; it’s because we’re causing the release of all of those metabolic waste products that were locked up in the muscle… Just [drink] a little bit of extra water to help flush that out.
Story at-a-glance
• Laser therapy treatment helps reduce pain and inflammation and enhances tissue healing—both in hard and soft tissues, including muscles, ligaments, and even bones
• It increases oxygenation of tissues and allows injured or damaged cells to absorb photons of light, which speeds healing. Class 4 laser therapy can be effectively combined with a number of other treatment modalities
• Laser therapy can be helpful for acute injuries, such as strains, sprains, and shoulder injuries; repetitive-use injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome; traumatic injuries, and chronic issues, such as frozen shoulder and arthritis
• Laser therapy is also used by some veterinarians to treat arthritic conditions, hip dysplasia, or intervertebral disc disease in dachshunds, for example.
Granted, red laser is highly useful for treating superficial wounds, cuts, abrasions, and perhaps even for the treatment of vitiligo, but they will not penetrate far enough for deep seated pain reduction. However, infrared lasers (around 800 nanometers) penetrate far deeper and able to go several centimeters, into your body which will reach most tissue injuries.
Power is also another crucial factor when it comes to laser therapy. Power is measured in watts, and you can think of it as the brightness of the light. A higher-powered laser is a brighter light, and it can produce more energy per unit of time. When it comes to doing laser therapy treatment, a higher-powered laser (Class 4) provides two benefits:
• A therapeutic dose of laser light can be applied to a much larger volume of tissue
• By shining that brighter light at the surface, photons of light are able to penetrate deeper into the tissues, which allows you to treat deep-seated pain conditions.
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11140 Rockville Pike #530
Rockville, MD, 20852
Phone: +1 301-881-2898
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