How Cold Laser Therapy Can Help
Laser light stimulates your cells to produce more energy
- Accelerates your bodies
natural healing processes - Restores normal cellular structure and function
- Prevents future injury
What you will experience
- Pain relief
- Reduced inflammation & swelling
- Restored mobility
- Accelerated recovery from injury
Why Cold Laser Therapy
- Heal the problem, stop masking the pain
- Safe, drug-free and no side effects
- Avoid or delay surgery
- Accelerate and strengthen the body’s natural healing mechanisms
Laser light stimulates your cells to produce more energy
- Accelerates your bodies
natural healing processes - Restores normal cellular structure and function
- Prevents future injury
What you will experience
- Pain relief
- Reduced inflammation & swelling
- Restored mobility
- Accelerated recovery from injury
Why Cold Laser Therapy
- Heal the problem, stop masking the pain
- Safe, drug-free and no side effects
- Avoid or delay surgery
- Accelerate and strengthen the body’s natural healing mechanisms
Efficacy of low-level laser
therapy in the management
of neck pain
The Effect of Low-Level
Laser in Knee Osteoarthritis
Low-level laser therapy in
meniscal pathology
How does it help me?
The Rehabilitation Experts
Decrease Inflammation and Edema
- Increase in inflammatory mediators such as macrophages, neutrophils and lymphocytes accelerates and resolves the inflammatory process, reducing swelling and eliminating pain.
Enhanced Muscle Regeneration
- Reduce atrophy and increased muscle growth and regeneration. Accelerated repair of damaged muscle fibers by activation of myogenic satellite cells.
Improve Nerve Regeneration
- Proliferation of growth factors promotes neuronal sprouting and myelin formation for optimal nerve recovery
Increase in collagen production
- Proper alignment of remodeling of collagen reduces internal scar formation and enhances tissue elasticity.
Increased cartilage production
- Increase in chondrocyte and collagen production allows for improved cartilage deposition and joint function
Expedited bone healing
- The proliferation of osteocytes and remodeling of bone extracellular matrix results in accelerated bone repair.
Increased angiogenesis and neovascularization
- An increase in oxygenated blood to the injured tissues accelerates tissue healing.
Increased cartilage production
- Increase in chondrocyte and collagen production allows for improved cartilage deposition and joint function
Expedited bone healing
- The proliferation of osteocytes and remodeling of bone extracellular matrix results in accelerated bone repair.
Increased angiogenesis and neovascularization
- An increase in oxygenated blood to the injured tissues accelerates tissue healing.
Decrease Inflammation and Edema
- Increase in inflammatory mediators such as macrophages, neutrophils and lymphocytes accelerates and resolves the inflammatory process, reducing swelling and eliminating pain.
Enhanced Muscle Regeneration
- Reduce atrophy and increased muscle growth and regeneration. Accelerated repair of damaged muscle fibers by activation of myogenic satellite cells.
Improve Nerve Regeneration
- Proliferation of growth factors promotes neuronal sprouting and myelin formation for optimal nerve recovery
Increase in collagen production
- Proper alignment of remodeling of collagen reduces internal scar formation and enhances tissue elasticity.
The treatment is entirely painless. Most patients do not experience any sensations at all, however, there are some reports of slight tingling or warmth to an area during treatment. Any heating that occurs is generated by the nature of the equipment or is from the physiological effects of increased blood flow. The power of the laser and wavelengths used will not create any actual heating effect in the tissues. Occasionally there are reports of light soreness after a treatment depending on the nature of the condition treated. Typically this sensation is gone after 1-2 treatments as the tissues adapt.
Additional Questions
Is it safe?
Yes. Cold laser therapy is non-invasive, non-toxic, and will not interact with medications that you are taking. The laser will not burn you or create any heating effect. Laser therapy will not interact with or negatively impact the function of any implants, pacemakers, or other devices. The only caution that needs to be taken is the use of goggles to prevent any exposure of concentrated light to the eye.
How many treatments will I need?
How long are the treatments?
Is there exposure to harmful radiation?
When should I start laser therapy?
What regulations are associated with Bioflex System?
Cold Laser Therapy Benefits
Laser Therapy
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Physical Therapy
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OTC Pain Medications
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Cortisone
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Surgery
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| Non-toxic | ✓ | ✓ |
✗ Depends on the medication. Prolonged use can damage your liver or stomach causing ulcers, internal bleeding, nausea, headaches and constipation. |
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| Safe | ✓ | ✓ |
✗ Over 103K hospitalizations and 16.5K deaths per year are associated with NSAID use |
✗ Infections, severe fluid retention (look up “moon face”) and eventually an increased risk of osteoporosis |
✗ Many deaths and long-term disabilities occur each year as a result of undergoing surgery. |
| Non-invasive | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
◐ Oral steroids are non-invasive. Injections are minimally invasive. |
✗ Surgery is extremely invasive |
| Helps Reduce Pain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ Pain reduction from reducing inflammation is often temporary if not combined with physical therapy to address the root cause |
◐ When indicated surgery can lead to meaningful improvements. However, surgery is followed by a painful recovery and delayed pain relief |
| No Side Effects | ✓ | ✓ |
✗ All OTC medications of side effects. Some stronger medications include narcotics and opioids with their dangers of dependency. |
✗ Weakens and breaks down bone, joint cartilage, ligaments and tendons accelerating the degenerative cascade of the tissue* |
✗ There are always negative side effects of surgery. When surgery is indicated the positive side effects outweigh the negative. |
| Directly Stimulates Cellular Self-Healing |
✓ Heals the cells of the body in a completely pain-free way |
◐ Heals the cells of the body in a completely pain-free way |
✗ No commonly used OTC medications promote healing of your body. |
✗ Corticosteroids degrade and break down connective tissue which impedes the healing process. |
✗ Damages cells as a result of surgery. |
| Safe with other medications | ✓ | ✓ |
✗ Many OTC pain medications can alter the effectiveness of vital medications for conditions such as heart health |
◐ Oral steroids interact negatively with other meds. Injections less so, but can in some instances |
◐ Depends on surgery and what medications are requires post surgery |
| Eliminates or Postpones Surgery | ✓ |
✓ Works by improving mobility, strength and coordination to reduce stress and irritation on vulnerable tissues |
✗ Does not change the internal structure of the body or the need for surgery |
◐ Depends on involvement in a coinciding rehab program |
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| Safe around pacemakers? | ✓ | ✓ |
◐ Some are safe |
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◐ Depends on surgery |
| Recovery assistance? | ✓ |
✓ Highly effective at restoring more efficient function and movement patterns in the body to rudice chronic strain and promotes longevity of healthpan of the body |
◐ NSAIDs can delay healing and increase recovery times. Depends on conicinding rehab progam |
◐ Results wear off onver a relatively short period of time and additonal injections are commonly not as effective |
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* Reference for cortisone breaking down connective tissue: http://journalofprolotherapy.com/the-deterioration-of-articular-cartilage-in-osteoarthritis-by-corticosteroid-injections/