Lasers have meant many big changes in all fields of medicine. Precision cutting abilities make surgery easier on the patient with a wealth of other benefits.
Chiropractic care works well alongside a technology called cold laser therapy. Unlike surgical lasers, cold lasers aren’t designed to cut tissue and in fact, they won’t warm body tissue at all.
At Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, we use cold laser therapy to supplement chiropractic treatments to help you recover from soft tissue injury. It’s a drug-free and painless modality that improves the efficiency and speed of healing.
Today, we’ll look at five essential benefits of cold laser therapy and how these can reduce your pain and improve flexibility.
A defining characteristic of lasers is that they emit only a single wavelength of light that’s been amplified and stimulated. Different lasers emit their own wavelength, and the amount of amplification determines the energy that a laser can deliver.
By definition, cold lasers are low-energy devices. When absorbed by your tissue, light energy won’t be converted to a significant amount of heat energy, as many cosmetic lasers do.
Light energy is carried in tiny particles called photons. Cold laser photons stimulate the cells of injured tissue, causing chemical changes that boost the natural healing cycle and increase blood flow.
Cold lasers work best for healing when they emit light between 600 and 1,000 nanometers in wavelength. There’s negligible effects on the healthy tissue that cold lasers penetrate to reach injured soft tissue.
Particularly effective for wear-and-tear injuries of the musculoskeletal system, cold laser therapy can aid the healing of:
Given the way that cold laser therapy assists blood flow and healing of ligaments, muscles, and tendons, it’s a valuable treatment tool in virtually any injury that’s hampered by the effects of inflammation.
You can benefit from cold laser therapy in five important ways. We’ve outlined these here:
Treatments of cold laser therapy may seem little different to holding a small flashlight up to the site of an injury. The difference is in the quality and targets of the light energy that the cold laser emits. It won’t harm healthy tissue or cause side effects.
Cold lasers work through your skin without incisions or penetration. Light passes through your skin for absorption into injured tissue.
Light therapy has no typical conflicts with other treatments, such as oral or topical pain relieving medications. In fact, cold laser therapy may reduce your dependence or dosages of drugs that may have harmful side effects.
You won’t feel a thing during a cold laser treatment.
Creating conditions for natural healing is what chiropractic treatments are all about. With the addition of cold laser therapy to trigger healing responses, you get the best of both modalities.
Find out more about cold lasers and their benefits by scheduling an appointment with the nearest location of Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation today.
