Category Archives: Information Videos

This sub-category contains videos of interviews, podcasts, research and what is happening in the industry.

NovoTHOR testimonial: Dr Wilding | How much did you know about PBM?

Posted on 22 July 2018 by Ian

Dr Wilding of Chiropractic Advantage answers the question “How much knowledge did you have on Photobiomodulation (PBM) before you implemented it into your practice?” View NovoTHOR website.

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Disclaimer: These comments by healthcare professionals and their patients are solely their own. They are uncompensated personal stories about how they have used, or been impacted by, light therapy. These uses have not been reviewed or cleared by FDA.

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NovoTHOR testimonial: Dr Wilding | Choosing NovoTHOR

Posted on 28 June 2018 by Ian

Dr Wilding of Chiropractic Advantage and his patients talk about NovoTHOR and how it affected them.

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NovoTHOR testimonial: Infinity Healing

Posted on 25 June 2018 by Ian

Infinity Healing | Why did I choose to buy a NovoTHOR?

Maryellen Ammons of Infinity Healing shares her experience and decision to buy a NovoTHOR.

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Dr Mercola and Dr Hamblin Interview about photobiomodulation therapy

Posted on 9 May 2017 by Ian

Highlights of an interview between Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Michael Hamblin about healing the body with Photobiomodulation therapy.

At the time of writing: Michael R Hamblin Ph.D. is a Principal Investigator at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, an Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and affiliated faculty at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology. He directs a laboratory of around a dozen scientists who work in photodynamic therapy and photobiomodulation. He has published 346 peer-reviewed articles, is Editor or Associate Editor for 10 journals and serves on NIH Study-Sections. He has an h-factor of 77 and over 21,700 citations. He has authored/edited 11 proceedings volumes together with ten other major textbooks on PDT and photomedicine. Dr Hamblin was honored by election as a Fellow of SPIE in 2011, and received the 1st Endre Mester Lifetime Achievement Award from NAALT in 2017.

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The story of how LLLT / Photobiomodulation was discovered

Posted on 9 March 2017 by James Carroll

This is an extraordinary lecture. It is the story of how LLLT / Photobiomodulation was discovered, and because of the context in which it occurred you might also find it very moving, so get some tissues. It is an hour and 10 minutes long so get comfortable, maybe get some popcorn and a drink too. I will paste the email that Andrew Mester wrote into the comments section below.

Here is the email from Andrew Mester :

I had the privilege to give a keynote presentation at the most recent NAALT (North American Association of PhotobiomoduLation Therapy) meeting in February 5, 2017 in Coronado Island, San Diego. The title of paper was: “Invention of Laser Biostimulation”. My lecture is in Youtube now.

BACKGROUND:
Photo-medicine is an exciting new field in both scientific and clinical research all over the world and most recently in the USA. I learned in this interesting meeting that low intensity laser and LED light may stimulate, heal and regenerate neural tissue. Possible treatments are under investigation regarding traumatic events (stroke, traumatic brain injury and global ischemia), degenerative diseases (dementia, Alzheimer and Parkinson’s disease) and psychiatric disorders (PTSD, depression and anxiety). Most American studies are sponsored by the NIH (Michael Hamblin, PhD, Mass General Hospital) and by the VA (Margaret Naeser, PhD at Boston Jamaica Plain VA Hospital).

My association to this field is that my Father, Endre Mester, MD published first biostimulatory effect of the low power laser in 1967. My father, myself and my brother, Adam Mester, MD have published all the basic both research and clinical studies in the literature. We described the stimulatory effect primarily in wound healing and also the systemic effect of laser irradiation which is used now in all of the above mentioned research protocols.

My father is called in the literature the “Father of Photobiomodulation”.

The NAALT society established an Award named after my father: “Professor Endre Mester Award who made the seminal observation on the therapeutic benefits of low dose laser treatments”. The award recognizes a clinician or researcher who has made significant contributions to our understanding of light-biological tissue interactions and its therapeutic benefits, specifically in the area of Photobiomodulation Therapy. I was asked to present this award to Michael Hamblin, PhD from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School because of his lifetime achievements in Photobiomodulation.

Andrew Mester MD