Lasers May Heal by Sending Information to the Body
by Dr. Bruce Forciea
Lasers are one of the newer healing devices on the market today. Low level laser
therapy has been shown to be effective in treating sprains and strains, carpal tunnel,
fibromyalgia, tendonitis, bursitis and a host of other problems. But just how does this
space-age technology actually work? How do lasers heal?
Light has been used as a healing modality for centuries. The ancient Indians and
Chinese used color to heal and it is an important part of Aurvedic healing. Sunlight
has long been regarded as playing an important role in healing. Some cultures even
worshiped the sun as a healer.
Lasers and sunlight are both forms of electromagnetic energy. Lasers produce what
is known as monochromatic light. The first laser was developed by Theodore
Maiman in the year 1960. Maiman was able to produce a red light that contained one
frequency. Sunlight contains many frequencies of light. You can see the various
frequencies of light by sending sunlight through a prism and observing the rainbow
of colors. The colors correspond to the different frequencies.
Later in the 1960’s Dr. Endre Mester thought that malignant tumors in rats would not
grow if they were exposed to low level laser light. To his disappointment the laser
had no effect on the tumors and they continued to grow. However, all was not lost
because he made an important observation. The skin incisions made in the rats
healed faster. Like sunlight, tissue healing was stimulated with lower exposures
while damage occurred with higher exposures. Mester’s work laid the foundation for
the low level healing lasers we see today.
Lasers heal on a cellular level. The mechanism has similarities to photosynthesis in
plants. Plants take energy in the form of sunlight and store it in a molecule called
adenosine triphosphate or ATP. Lasers stimulate tiny structures inside cells to also
produce ATP. The result is an increase in the cell’s function which can include
facilitating healing systems such as decreasing inflammation and assembling
components for repair.
If we look at healing with lasers and photosynthesis in terms of information
exchanges we see more similarities. Plants use the information in light in order to
maintain their complexity. In other words plants take sunlight and use it to build
larger more organized molecules from simpler less organized molecules. If we see
damaged cells as more disorganized than normal cells then lasers work by the
same mechanism. Laser light is taken in by the disorganized damaged cell and
helps the cell to become more organized. As cells increase their level of organization
they heal. Light then can be seen as a source of healing information.
The future is bright for low level laser therapy as studies are underway investigating
its effects on a variety of problems. Perhaps lasers can become finely tuned
information sources that promote healing for many conditions. Perhaps someday
they will be available as over the counter devices.
by Dr. Bruce Forciea
Lasers are one of the newer healing devices on the market today. Low level laser
therapy has been shown to be effective in treating sprains and strains, carpal tunnel,
fibromyalgia, tendonitis, bursitis and a host of other problems. But just how does this
space-age technology actually work? How do lasers heal?
Light has been used as a healing modality for centuries. The ancient Indians and
Chinese used color to heal and it is an important part of Aurvedic healing. Sunlight
has long been regarded as playing an important role in healing. Some cultures even
worshiped the sun as a healer.
Lasers and sunlight are both forms of electromagnetic energy. Lasers produce what
is known as monochromatic light. The first laser was developed by Theodore
Maiman in the year 1960. Maiman was able to produce a red light that contained one
frequency. Sunlight contains many frequencies of light. You can see the various
frequencies of light by sending sunlight through a prism and observing the rainbow
of colors. The colors correspond to the different frequencies.
Later in the 1960’s Dr. Endre Mester thought that malignant tumors in rats would not
grow if they were exposed to low level laser light. To his disappointment the laser
had no effect on the tumors and they continued to grow. However, all was not lost
because he made an important observation. The skin incisions made in the rats
healed faster. Like sunlight, tissue healing was stimulated with lower exposures
while damage occurred with higher exposures. Mester’s work laid the foundation for
the low level healing lasers we see today.
Lasers heal on a cellular level. The mechanism has similarities to photosynthesis in
plants. Plants take energy in the form of sunlight and store it in a molecule called
adenosine triphosphate or ATP. Lasers stimulate tiny structures inside cells to also
produce ATP. The result is an increase in the cell’s function which can include
facilitating healing systems such as decreasing inflammation and assembling
components for repair.
If we look at healing with lasers and photosynthesis in terms of information
exchanges we see more similarities. Plants use the information in light in order to
maintain their complexity. In other words plants take sunlight and use it to build
larger more organized molecules from simpler less organized molecules. If we see
damaged cells as more disorganized than normal cells then lasers work by the
same mechanism. Laser light is taken in by the disorganized damaged cell and
helps the cell to become more organized. As cells increase their level of organization
they heal. Light then can be seen as a source of healing information.
The future is bright for low level laser therapy as studies are underway investigating
its effects on a variety of problems. Perhaps lasers can become finely tuned
information sources that promote healing for many conditions. Perhaps someday
they will be available as over the counter devices.
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