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The therapeutic low level cold laser is FDA approved and studies have been well documented for wound healing, physical therapy, nerve regeneration and pain management. Many scientific studies have shown that different types of cells and
different organs respond to different frequencies. Several specific frequencies can be programmed into the laser thus effecting
several types of cells and functions simultaneously. Our clinic uses the Erchonia PL5000 which is the most advanced laser on the market.
Coherent energy is critical when treating the body. Dr. Herbert Frolich, a renown physicist specializing in biological coherence,
realized that the living matrix produced coherent or laser-like oscillations that integrate and coordinate processes such as growth, injury repair, defense and the functioning of the organism as a whole. The whole field of chemical analysis by spectroscopy reveals that there is a fundamental duality between chemical structure and coherent oscillations. Normally
cellular oscillation is very stable. When a cell or group of cells shift frequency, entraining signals from neighboring cells
will tend to install the correct frequency. However, if a sufficient number of cells get out of step, stability is lost and, loss of coherence leads to disease and dysfunction and impairs the healing process.
Research suggests that a normal healthy cell will resonate at a wavelength of 635 nanometers. When the body is injured or diseased, cells shift frequency. The cold laser emits a coherent wavelength of between 630-640 nanometers which
stimulate DNA replication, cell division and optimum cellular oscillation. This in turn accelerates the healing process by returning all the cells to optimum resonance.
Benefits of Cold Laser Therapy
- Increases overall circulation as well as micro circulation to hypoxic areas (trigger points)
- Increases oxygenation utilization
- Increases procollagen synthesis
- Increases immunological response
- Stimulates DNA replication and cell division accelerating healing
- Stimulates activity of nerve cells
- Increases lymphatic movement and drainage
- Stimulates proper organ function
- Increases permeability of cell membranes for better nutrient/waste exchange
- Increases mitochondria production of ATP (energy made in the cell) which help muscles to relax
- Decreases inflammation
- Decreases pain & muscle spasms
Neurological testing is done to determine if myotomes (nerve roots) and nerve paths are functioning properly.
 Article Appearing In The Dermatology Times Illustrates Healing With The
Low Level Cold Laser
Black tissue is necrosed or dead. Low level laser
studies have shown that the laser stimulates
angiogenesis and neurogenesis (regrowth
of veins/arteries and nerves).
The picture below was taken from the back page
of this article. Published Dec. 2002, vol. 23 No. 12
For more information regarding laser studies go to:
www.erchonia.com
N.M.R.E. (Neuromuscular Re-education)
Neuromuscular Re-education is a form of physical therapy that incorporates laser technology accelerating the rehabilitation process ensuring the proper use of muscles during exercise. The old adage "if you don't use it, you loose it" rings true when
it comes to the correct use of muscles. When muscle compensation takes place, which is common, muscles and/or muscle groups begin to function differently than their original designation. In other words, the muscles are doing a job their not
suppose to do. A pattern is set up through the nervous system where compensations persist and the brain literally "forgets" how the muscle is suppose to be used correctly. In turn, nerve stimulus to parts of the muscle are reduced, furthering muscle compensations. Muscle compensation leads to inefficiency and sometimes structural imbalance and can predispose the
athlete to injury. Think about this, if compensation is occurring, then strength training and ordinary physical therapy reinforces
the compensations in a never ending cycle.
In N.M.R.E. effected muscle/muscles are isolated and then utilizing the laser directly to
each isolated muscle, the athlete is directed through isometric exercises. What happens
is that the laser stimulates nerve response, and correct neural pathways to that muscle or
muscles are re-established. The brain is being retrained how to use the muscle/muscles
correctly. Once proper muscle use is established, then strengthening begins. The laser is
used in a broad beam which encompasses the muscle groups to the effected area. Because
of the beneficial effects the laser has on the body, it accelerates the strengthening process
for the muscles and connective tissue.
Laser with N.M.R.E.
Prolotherapy by Laser
Ligaments, tendons and cartilage have poor healing abilities due to the lack of blood supply to these tissues. When these tissues become damaged, the joint becomes unstable, and in order to compensate, the body forms bony, arthritic spurs. This causes increased friction, increased pain, inflammation, weakness and loss of joint mobility. Injury and chronic pain often result.
Prolotherapy by Laser application facilitates the healing process of hard to heal connective tissue.
What is Prolotherapy? Literally translated proliferation therapy, prolotherapy causes new collagen to grow (proliferate) at the injury site. Laser assisted prolotherapy increases blood supply to the affected tissues, and increases cell membrane permeability, which means that the cells have better nutrient uptake, increased
cell replication and strength. When treated soon after an injury to joints, ligaments and tendons, prolotherapy reduces instability and the formation of spurs. Over several treatments, overstretched ligaments will usually regain their normal tension.
Conditions Benefited by Prolotherapy
- Degenerative arthritis
- Back, hip and neck pain
- Torn or overstretched ligaments and tendons
- Torn cartilage
- Degenerated or herniated discs
- Bursitis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Achilles tendon tears and heel spurs
- Tennis elbow and rotator cuff tears and injuries
- Fibromyalgia
- TMJ dysfunction (other techniques are also employed with this condition
which usually only take two or three treatments to correct).
Magnetic Field Therapy
Magnetic Field Therapy can be applied in many ways, and devices range from small, simple magnets to large machines capable of generating high magnitudes of field strength. Magnets and electromagnetic devices penetrate the whole body and can treat every type of tissue facilitating the healing process without side effects. Scientific studies demonstrate that the body concentrates negative electromagnetic energy at the site of an injury for healing. If the body succeeds in sending enough negative magnetic energy to the injury, then it will heal more readily. However, in most cases the body simply does not supply and maintain enough negative magnetic energy at the injury site to facilitate healing. This is because the body has some limitations - based on its own energy capacity - of how much negative magnetic energy it can generate. Adding a negative magnetic field source of sufficient strength from outside the body can provide anti-stressful energy for healing to occur.
It is important to understand that we are bombarded every day by electromagnetic fields (EMF) which are emitted from all electrical appliances, computers, cell phones, florescent lighting, electrical wiring in homes and automobiles, power lines, and micro and radio waves. The human body produces an electromagnetic field generated by the chemical reactions within the cells and the ionic currents of the nervous system. External EMF's as mentioned above, have a deleterious effect on our own bioelectrical magnetic field in the sense that they (EMF's) disturb the brain's natural resonant frequencies, thus weakening our nervous system, leading to cellular fatigue, which in turn impairs our ability to generate negative magnetic energy for healing. Scientific evidence concludes that the exposure of living organisms to abnormal electromagnetic fields (EMF) results in significant abnormalities in physiology and function, contributing to disease.
Benefits of Magnetic Field Therapy
magnets on both sides of the knee with laser therapy
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