What’s a Laser Anyway; How Does It Work?
Laser therapy, antiaging, arthritis healing, and scar tissue repair, it all sounds like an episode of Star Trek or some future fiction. The truth is, all of this is possible through treatment with cold lasers. Also known as Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT), Cold Laser light treatment is not a fictitious remedy that is only written about in novels or displayed on the big screen, it is a real practice that educated, medical professionals utilize to combat and heal a number of maladies, but for doubters, it is not enough to simply say it works, unbelievers want science, and they can have it.
In depth scientific explanations of LLLT take volumes to unpack. First you have to understand the function of a cell, get an intimate understanding of cellular components, ATP, ribosomes, cell membranes all those things you forgot since high school biology. Then you need to take a quick refresher course on light energy, particularly the powerful spectrum of the sun and the lower end red spectrum, the ones that make infrared goggles give marines catlike night vision. You will need to consider x-rays (another light spectrum) and the physics of light. After all of that, you can understand most of what is going on with cold lasers. The internet is laden with research if you are so inclined.
If you do not have the time for all of that, at least you can have a start with the bare basics of how things work. If it seems too easy, or too impossible, there is always in depth research to assuage your doubts. A basic understanding of how cold laser light therapy works can be achieved by relating the process.
The cells in a human body use food energy to create ATP (remember, you are just getting an overview this is a complex process). ATP is made in the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell. The ATP is then used as fuel to generate cell functions. More of it means more energy, more cell repair, more regeneration, more stimulation. Cold lights provoke this process to happen more and spread more efficiently through three main avenues.
Cold lights (this term refers to the low-spectrum emission as compared with thermal light such as that from the sun), penetrate the surface of the skin, think x-rays, and stimulate the cell to create more ATP. These lights also interact with the cells to cause more DNA production. Finally, the light invades the cell membrane causing its permeability to increase. These three factors stimulate cells to rejuvenate.
Rejuvenation effects scar tissue for example, by provoking that dermis-level healed covering to reengage in growth until a new layer of epidermal cells replace that shiny undercoating. (You have to remember there is so much science behind this that rote statements make it seem like magic, but it is not. It is scientific.) Healed tissues also reduce arthritis pain and create more elastic skin (through collagen regeneration), which leads to wrinkle reduction. Always remember, volumes of science backs up this process and while the applications of proven Laser therapy are still limited, trials and medical studies are revealing new uses for these medical tools every day.
Sources Cited:
(laser diode graphic) k3pgp.org
http://coldlasertherapy.us/how-do-cold-lasers-work.php
http://www.laserexchange.co.uk/laser-therapy/how-does-it-work.htm
By: Winston Crump
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