Laser therapy a clinical manual

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You've already accomplished the first and very important part of the Goodreads Reading Challenge—signing up! Just by joining, Read more Trivia About Laser Therapy - A Delivery system technology such as the patented LightForce massage ball treatment head attachment allow clinicians to directly compress and manipulate tissue while using the laser. This helps minimize scatter and reflection, blanch away unwanted fluid close to the skin surface, and place the source of the laser closer to the intended tissue.

All these factors maximize the energy penetration to deeper tissues. This is important, because if the appropriate level of energy does not reach the injured tissue, PBM will not take place where it is needed, and the treatment will be ineffective. What does this mean to you the practicing clinician? Deep tissue therapy lasers have the ability to help accelerate plans of care and assist most manual therapy approaches by quickly reducing pain. Clinicians are faced daily with acute and semi-acute presentations that are challenging to treat in early stages due to muscle guarding and subjective complaints associated with inflammation.

Laser therapy has analgesic effects that can help with these patients. When laser is applied in sufficient doses, it has the ability to slow down conduction rates and increase the size of the action potentials in both C and A-delta afferent nerves 14,15, This analgesic effect can open the door to more manual options when applied prior to manual treatments.

Additionally, PBM up-regulates anti-inflammatory mediators 7,8,9,10,11,12,13 and stimulates growth factors 5,6 which will transition patients from the inflammatory phase to the proliferative and remodeling phases of healing more quickly.

This will allow for better tolerance of manual techniques and enable active exercises and functional activities to be introduced more quickly into plans of care. This is a primary reason over Division I and professional training rooms are utilizing LightForce Laser Therapy technology with their injured athletes to optimize their return to sport.

If you think your patients could benefit from this advanced technology, regardless of what your manual philosophies might be, please reach out for additional information.

LightForce The Science. Contact Us. Chow et al. Efficacy of low-level laser therapy in the management of neck pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised placebo or active-treatment controlled trials. Pryor, B.

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