Pain Reduction

This was a study performed at the University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange California.  This was a double blind study on 35 patients with trigeminal neuralgia.  The subjects received laser therapy or placebo therapy three times a week for ten weeks.  Probably the most notable aspect of this study was that therapists' administering the laser therapy were selected, intentionally had no previous experience with laser therapy.

The results showed that repeated LLLT produced pain relief in trigeminal neuralgia.  Those subjects with moderate to severe pain showed greater benefit than did subjects who had light pain.

Shoulder Tendonitis

This study done at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England was a random double blind study of 30 patients with shoulder tendonitis.  There were three treatment groups, one laser therapy, one sham laser therapy, and drug therapy.  Objectively active shoulder flexion, extension, and abduction were evaluation pre and post-treatment after two weeks.  Subjectively pain, stiffness, movement, and function were measured.

The laser therapy produced the greatest improvement of all three therapies when measuring maximum shoulder flexion, extension, and abduction AND also provided the greatest pain relief of all three therapies administered.  The drug therapy significantly improved movement and function only when compared to sham laser therapy.

Let's consider what happens when we use laser therapy.  The best description that I have found to discuss the biological benefits of low level laser therapy is from Professor H. Klima from the Atomic Institute of the Austrian Universities in Vienna, Austria.  Klima has conducted various research studies that document the following effects of laser therapy:

• Anti-inflammatory--reduces the ability of the lymphocytes to reach the antigenic stimuli.
• Edema reduction and revascularization--increased regeneration of lymph vessels and veins.
• Reduced fibrous tissue formation--it slows and reduces fibrous tissue formation.
• Increased tissue activity--changes in prostaglandin content, higher enzyme content, increased production of cellular products.
• Stimulate cell growth--connective tissue, tendon tissue, bone tissue, and recently nerve tissue.  It is important to note that cancerous tissue and bacterial growth is not stimulated by LLLT.
• Cell regeneration--increased regeneration of nerve cells in the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system following laboratory inflicted injuries.

With the laser, we are using very specific light energy for the exact frequency of firing of a healthy cell.  When a healthy cell replicates, when the DNA replicates, for instance when I exercise my muscles the protein DNA replication in the muscle cells every 6-10 days.  If we only workout one time there will be very little protein DNA replication as a result, there will be no increase bulk or strength.  It takes approximately three weeks for an old muscle cell to be replaced by a new one.  By using the laser, we are allowing tan older cell to replicate at a faster rate.

The skin regenerates one cell in about 28 days.

Liver, gall bladder, and organs in general take about 3-6 months for one cell to be replaced by a new cell.

Bone cells take about one year.  The latest information is that every cell in your body replicates in about one year.

What we are dong with the laser is putting in a light frequency that is the same frequency as a healthy cell with the same frequency replicates, when the DNA replicates it is at a wavelength of 630-640nm.  The Erchonia PL3000 laser emits a wavelength of exactly 635nm; it is very exacting.  This does not waver more than 5nm in either direction--up or down.  It never gets less than 630nm and never gets more than 640nm.  This is why we are able to get such incredible results--because it is so precise.

Something very small, like a chronic condition, for example-- Oshira does tomography and finds that there are cold spots in the body where there is not enough blood supply, he comes back and administers laser therapy to the area to increase blood supply and affect the micro vasculation and increase the nerve potentiation and you can see changes in the tomography within an hour.  Something that is too much activity like an inflammatory response, it is actually able to bring down and return to normal.

If you can begin receiving treatment within the first few hours of trauma, you usually do not have the inflammatory response and the inflammatory cascade.