Cold Laser Therapy

Cold Laser Therapy using Light Emitting Diodes research list

Yet another NASA NIR LED therapy paper was published recently showing that LED treatment may be therapeutic to damaged neurons, this time in a Parkinson’s disease model. I thought some of you may not appreciate quite how much research has been conducted with LED’s so here is a list of 43 that I found on PubMed.

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Laser therapy improves vision in patients with Age-related Macular Degeneration

Low-level laser therapy improves vision in patients with Age-related Macular Degeneration.

Researchers at University of Heidelberg, Germany have conducted a clinical trial on 203 patients with AMD (age-related macular degeneration) and improved visual acuity for between 3 and 36 months. Continue reading Laser therapy improves vision in patients with Age-related Macular Degeneration…

Cold Laser Therapy Mechanisum : On the way to a unified theory

I just had  chat with Mike Hamblin (Harvard Medical School). He described to me how he had this insight about Nitric Oxide being unbound from Cytochrome C Oxidase by light after reading an article in Nature about fire flies.

Hypoxic or stressed cells tend to be low in oxygen and high in NO
This NO is bound to to Cytochrome C oxidase and inhibits cell function

Light (at certain wavelengths, intensities and duration)  knocks NO off Cytochrome C oxidase so the cell performs optimally again plus the NO causes a temporary increase in blood flow

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Photobiomodulation / Cold Laser Therapy / LLLT It’s time to name names

This week Lars Hode and Jan Tunér put out a call for some concensus on the name for this cold laser, low level laser, photobiomodulation thing that we do.They concluded by proposing Laser Phototherapy. I had some counter arguments:

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