Cold Laser Therapy

Sometimes referred to as: low level laser therapy (LLLT), low power laser therapy (LPLT), soft laser, bio-stimulation laser, therapeutic laser, and laser acupuncture… is on track to become one of the most important developments in life sciences since the discovery of penicillin. Cold Laser dramatically reduces musculoskeletal pain and inflammation as well as promoting soft tissue repair wherever the laser beam is applied. It is not a heat treatment, it’s medicinal effects are photochemical. One of the primary actions is on mitochondrial production of ATP, therefore potentially affecting any cell in the body.

Cold Laser has undergone over 1000 published laboratory studies and is already proven effective in over 100 successful double blind controlled clinical trials. These trials concluded that Cold Laser was successful in relieving acute and chronic back pain, neck pain, headaches, osteoarthritis, tendonitis, sports injuries, pain from rheumatoid arthritis and chronic joint disorders. Cold lasers are also sometimes used for acupuncture, using laser beams to stimulate the body's acupuncture points rather than using needles.

FDA Approved Medical Technology

Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) has been used worldwide for over 40 years to relieve pain, remove scars, heal wounds, regenerate nerves and solve addictions. On January 17, 2002, the first US Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) company, Erchonia, the laser you're being treated with, received FDA clearance through clinical trial. The study took 100 patients complaining of neck and shoulder pain. Were treated with a useless red light (placebo group), similar to that on a computer mouse or grocery checkout, and the other half received LLLT. The treatment group beat the placebo group by 66%! That's 66% faster relief and more complete relieve, a remarkable margin. Such a study is known as "double blind" research, and is the gold standard for measuring the validity of a therapy. Similar studies have been passed by the FDA for Carpal Tunnel, Wounds and Scar Tissue. There are over 2000 published studies on LLLT reporting zero negative side effects. Visit www.Erchonia.com for in-depth research.

"What does this thing do again?"

In a nutshell, Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) causes tissues to heal faster — muscle, skin and nerve — 66% faster according to the above FDA study.

Specifically, LLLT works at the cell level. Human cells produce a chemical known as ATP (adenosine triphosphate) to run the body and heal tissue. All of our body activity result from the use of ATP, it's like gasoline to a car. LLLT stimulates a micro structure within the cells called mitochondria (nicknamed the "powerhouse" because it produces ATP) to produce slightly higher amounts of ATP. Thus the more ATP at the cell level, tissues heal faster, and therefore release comes quicker.

Conditions and Symptoms

As is true of many alternative therapies, you may receive alternative benefits to being treated, in addition to what you wanted fixed in the first place. This is because the ATP being produced is "systemic", meaning although we're focusing the laser on a particular area, the ATP is ultimately being sent around your entire body. A list of symptoms responding to LLLT is growing, and more valid research is being performed on a daily basis.

• Acute and Chronic Pain
• Neuropathy
• Neck & Back Pain
• Headaches & Migraines
• Fibromyalgia
• Nerve & Disc Pain
• Carpal Tunnel
• Sciatica
• Sports Injuries
• Scars and Scar Tissue
• Addiction behaviors such as overeating and smoking

Number of Treatments Needed:

4 – 12 treatments are necessary to begin the healing process of tissue, although in some cases relief can begin immediately. Maximum treatment would be one time per day per area, minimum would be one time per week to still see results. Multiple areas of complaint may be treated. This treatment cycle may need to be repeated, and eventually spread out.

For appointments... please call the office 480-607-4436.