Conditions Which Can Benefit from Laser Therapy
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Repetitive Motion Injuries of the Hand and Wrist
Disc Bulges and Herniated Discs
Rotator Cuff Tears / Shoulder Injuries
Sciatica or Pinched Sciatic Nerve
TMJ Dysfunction (Temporomandibular Dysfunction) / Jaw Pain
Tendonitis including Biceps Tendonitis, Achilles Tendonitis, Elbow Tendonitis
Arthritis (Osteoarthritis)
Muscle Sprains including Groin Pulls and Hamstring Tears
Ligaments Strains including Medial and Lateral Collateral Ligament Injuries / Anterior and Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
Injuries of the Knee Meniscus
Shoulder and Hip Bursitis
Ankle Sprains
Fibromyalgia
Pinched Nerves::
Treatment with Class IV High Power Laser Therapy (HPLT)
Pinched Nerves are often accompanied by sharp pain, numbness, tingling or burning along the track of the injured nerve. Pinched Nerves in the neck commonly cause symptoms in the arms and hands while symptoms in the legs and feet often originate from irritated nerves in the low back. In severe circumstances, muscle weakness can also be seen.
How Does High Power Class IV Laser Therapy Help Pinched Nerves?
Unlike other tissues in the body, nerves do not have an external blood supply. Therefore, the blood vessels that are responsible for feeding the nerve itself are actually located WITHIN the nerve. This makes the nerve VERY vulnerable to both trauma and repetitive motion injuries. When the nerve becomes impinged the blood supply that feeds the nerve also becomes “pinched off”. Without this blood the cell does not receive its supply of oxygen and glucose which are needed for the cell to create it own energy for healing.
In other words:
NO OXYGEN + NO GLUCOSE ⇒ NO ENERGY ⇒ NO HEALING.
Without energy to power the healing process the injured nerve cannot heal itself. Over time, this leads to a painful chronic condition called Neuropathy. The symptoms of Neuropathy include sharp pain, burning, numbness or tingling either at the site of the nerve injury or wherever the nerve travels. For example, the condition known as Sciatica is a form of Neuropathy that specifically affects the Sciatic Nerve.
A Real World Analogy of How High Power Laser Therapy Works
Nerve Injury (Neuropathy) is similar to a bad car accident on the freeway where emergency crews must travel through heavy traffic before they can offer assistance. The freeway can be compared to the nerve’s blood supply and the emergency crew represents the body’s ability to heal itself. There are two primary challenges to the emergency workers, 1) the injured individuals can’t be helped until the traffic jam is cleared, and 2) the traffic can’t be cleared away until the damaged vehicles are removed. As you can see with this example it would likely take a very long time before rescue crews are able to help out.
However, in the real world we have a better option, Life Flight – a helicopter that bypasses the traffic and goes directly to the site of the accident to heal the sick and injured. The Cellular Medicine equivalent to Life Flight is Class IV High Power Laser Therapy.
Class IV High Power Laser Therapy does not rely upon the blood stream to deliver its benefit to injured nerves as in the case of oxygen, glucose, elements of the immune system and medications. Laser Therapy delivers the necessary energy directly to the powerhouses of the nerve cell (known as mitochondria) to jump-start the healing process. The focused, high-energy light waves stimulate the mitochondria to produce the vitally important ATP. This photochemical process completely bypasses the arterial “highway” that was damaged as a result of the initial injury. Now when we update our formula to take this into account we get:
NO OXYGEN + NO GLUCOSE ⇒ NO ENERGY ⇒ NO HEALING.
LASER STIMULATION OF MITOCHONDRIA ⇒ ENERGY PRODUCTION (ATP) ⇒ HEALING
Call our office at (800) 902-NO-PAIN to find out if Class IV High Power Laser Therapy can help you.
