Laser Therapy
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Sheikh Ijaz
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Published on 05/21/2008
Laser therapy in modern times
Nowadays, low-level laser therapy uses low output level i.e, 100 mw and short treatment times ranging from 10-240 seconds. Moreover, it also uses low energy levels , almost 1—4j/cm2 latest laser therapy is actually an extension of well known physiotherapy modalities which are based upon the use of different parts of electromagnetic spectrum such as short waves, micro waves, infrared and ultraviolet rays.
Nowadays, low-level laser therapy uses low output level i.e, 100 mw and short treatment times ranging from 10-240 seconds. Moreover, it also uses low energy levels , almost 1—4j/cm2 latest laser therapy is actually an extension of well known physiotherapy modalities which are based upon the use of different parts of electromagnetic spectrum such as short waves, micro waves, infrared and ultraviolet rays.
Laser Therapy
What is laser?
Laser stands for ‘Light Amplification of stimulated emission of radiation'. Actually it is a beam of light emerging from the electromagnetic spectrum. Unlike the usual or normal light rays, a laser beam has specific and peculiar features. It is monochromatic in nature and always travels in straight direction. All of its photons are identical in size and are always equidistant in time and space.
What we mean by laser therapy.
Laser therapy means the treatment of various articular, neural and soft tissues by using laser. It is interesting to know that low level laser therapy has been explored, investigated and used clinically over thirty years mostly in Eastern Europe and Asia. Laser therapy not only can cut, cauterize and destroy a tissue but it can also alter cellular function no thermally and nondestructively when it is used at lower powers. This very phenomenon is also known as Biostimulation.
Laser therapy in modern times.
Nowadays, low-level laser therapy uses low output level i.e, 100 mw and short treatment times ranging from 10-240 seconds. Moreover, it also uses low energy levels , almost 1—4j/cm2 latest laser therapy is actually an extension of well known physiotherapy modalities which are based upon the use of different parts of electromagnetic spectrum such as short waves, micro waves, infrared and ultraviolet rays.
Efficiency of laser therapy on human body.
During the laser therapy, laser light penetrates the human tissues from 8 to 15 mm but, at the same time , majority of light is absorbed within the first 4mm. Effect of low level laser therapy on nerve tissue was initially a mixed one. It affected nerve conduction velocity and distal latency. It should be made clear that these initial studies used low powered hence lasers ( 1 mw) and resultant low energy densities ( .012 j/cm2. On the contrary the latest laser techniques utilize higher energy densities and deeper penetrating lasers and have brought about alternations in distal nerve latency and conduction velocity by a few to many percent. Moreover they can also last for periods of 30 minutes or greater.
Scope of laser therapy.
Over the years, laser therapy has proved itself a very fantastic and bombastic technique in treating various types of muscularosketol disorders. It has established its deep rooted impacts in the medical field and almost all the professional doctors tend to depend more and more on laser therapy just because of its efficacy in treatment. If this vast use of laser therapy continues at the present rate, it is beyond doubt that this very method of treatment will dominate all other therapies in the near future.
The use of laser therapy is not confined only to a specific area or one part of the world but it is prevailed all over the world with the same intensity.
Conclusions:
The sum and substance of the whole above said information is that laser therapy is doubtlessly the best technique being used to treat neuromusculosketed disorders. More and more research is being carried out in this effective field and it is dead sure that future of laser therapy is ever more bright.
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Laser stands for ‘Light Amplification of stimulated emission of radiation'. Actually it is a beam of light emerging from the electromagnetic spectrum. Unlike the usual or normal light rays, a laser beam has specific and peculiar features. It is monochromatic in nature and always travels in straight direction. All of its photons are identical in size and are always equidistant in time and space.
What we mean by laser therapy.
Laser therapy means the treatment of various articular, neural and soft tissues by using laser. It is interesting to know that low level laser therapy has been explored, investigated and used clinically over thirty years mostly in Eastern Europe and Asia. Laser therapy not only can cut, cauterize and destroy a tissue but it can also alter cellular function no thermally and nondestructively when it is used at lower powers. This very phenomenon is also known as Biostimulation.
Laser therapy in modern times.
Nowadays, low-level laser therapy uses low output level i.e, 100 mw and short treatment times ranging from 10-240 seconds. Moreover, it also uses low energy levels , almost 1—4j/cm2 latest laser therapy is actually an extension of well known physiotherapy modalities which are based upon the use of different parts of electromagnetic spectrum such as short waves, micro waves, infrared and ultraviolet rays.
Efficiency of laser therapy on human body.
During the laser therapy, laser light penetrates the human tissues from 8 to 15 mm but, at the same time , majority of light is absorbed within the first 4mm. Effect of low level laser therapy on nerve tissue was initially a mixed one. It affected nerve conduction velocity and distal latency. It should be made clear that these initial studies used low powered hence lasers ( 1 mw) and resultant low energy densities ( .012 j/cm2. On the contrary the latest laser techniques utilize higher energy densities and deeper penetrating lasers and have brought about alternations in distal nerve latency and conduction velocity by a few to many percent. Moreover they can also last for periods of 30 minutes or greater.
Scope of laser therapy.
Over the years, laser therapy has proved itself a very fantastic and bombastic technique in treating various types of muscularosketol disorders. It has established its deep rooted impacts in the medical field and almost all the professional doctors tend to depend more and more on laser therapy just because of its efficacy in treatment. If this vast use of laser therapy continues at the present rate, it is beyond doubt that this very method of treatment will dominate all other therapies in the near future.
The use of laser therapy is not confined only to a specific area or one part of the world but it is prevailed all over the world with the same intensity.
Conclusions:
The sum and substance of the whole above said information is that laser therapy is doubtlessly the best technique being used to treat neuromusculosketed disorders. More and more research is being carried out in this effective field and it is dead sure that future of laser therapy is ever more bright.
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Any kind of copying, editing or publishing of any article from this site is strictly prohibited.