Research indicates that led light therapy can be effective for wound healing and other types of skin damage.
Light therapy for wound healing.
Red light therapy has a strong clinical record on healing wounds cuts and incisions and for helping patients recover from surgery faster with less pain and inflammation.
In the past navy seals used led light therapy to help heal wounds.
Infrared therapy promotes collagen production as proven in many studies cold laser red light waves stimulates collagen and elastin production in the final wound healing phases.
Red light may also be helpful in speeding up wound healing.
So far most studies are performed with red or infrared irradiation.
Red near infrared light speeds wound healing.
Research in the journal anais brasileiros de dermatologia highlights the fact that light therapy may help wound healing in a few ways.
Low level light therapy has been shown to improve in vitro wound healing.
However we recently showed that blue light 470 nm can significantly influence biological systems improving perfusion by release of nitric oxide from nitrosyl complexes with haemoglobin in a skin flap model in rats.
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Navy seals began using it in the 1990s to help heal wounds quickly and to help regenerate damaged muscle tissues.
A non healing wound in an elderly person especially one with diabetes can easily become infected and lead to amputation or worse.
A 2018 review examined numerous controlled trials on red light and wound healing.
However well defined parameters of different light sources for this therapy are lacking.
Led light therapy has an established history of skin uses.
Healing wounds cuts and incisions with red light.
Red light therapy used in an medical office setting may be used to treat more serious conditions like psoriasis slow healing wounds and even the side effects of chemotherapy.
The goal of this study was 1 to determine if the wavelengths tested are effective for in vitro wound healing and 2 to compare a laser and a light emitting diode led source at.
It helps release atp raw cellular energy which gives energy to the damaged cells in the wound so they can heal better and faster study.
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