The body possesses an internal wisdom that strives to maintain a state of good health. This innate intelligence controls our heart rate, blood pressure, hormone production, immune system and other bodily functions. It allows our body to maintain homeostasis; adapting to the influences of internal and external environment.
The nervous system controls the function of all the body's systems. The brain sends mental impulses to more than 100 trillion cells in the body, instructing them how to function properly. At the same time, each body part sends the brain information based on its surrounding environment. As the brain receives and processes this information, it sends out commands so the body will adequately respond to its surroundings and maintain the optimum level of good health. These impulses are transmitted between the brain and body through nerves passing through the spine.
Vertebrae in the spine can, and frequently do, lose their motion and interfere with the body's natural communication process. The lose of spinal motion and consequent loss of function in called a vertebral subluxation. These subluxations cause the messages transmitted over the spine to become modified and diminished. As a result, the bodies response is inability to adapt. As the natural ability to adapt and respond to its environment is reduced, the body's ability to respond to challenges to its health is reduced.
Research is now showing that light frequencies can help stimulate the healing mechanisms within the body. Each cell in the human body vibrates at a certain frequency. If it is not vibrating at that frequency it cannot function properly. Pollutants, infections, and stress have the ability to alter the level at which a cell vibrates slowing down the repair mechanisms. Through the use of Cold Light Laser Therapy the frequencies of cells can be restored, thus restoring proper energy and function to the cells.
HOW COLD LASER WORKS
When the body has an injury the cells are damaged and fail to function within normal parameters. Low level lasers from the Cold Laser machine pe*****te deeply into the skin and work by restoring this abnormal cellular function. Cold Laser uses a non-heat producing light laser, which is locked at a specific wavelength that is optimal for treatment and can pe*****te deeply into tissue. Cold Laser or Low Level Laser Therapy is emerging as the therapeutic modality in the healing arts community.
The biological effects of Low Level Laser Therapy have been shown to significantly accelerate and enhance the body's natural defense and repair abilities when injured. By reducing the duration of inflammation as well as enhancing specific repair and healing process, Low Level Laser Therapy has been proven to provide pain relief, reduce damage due to the injury and loss of function.
Low Level Laser Therapy enables the body to have a more rapid repair and stronger tissues once healed. Physiologic effects include improved metabolism, circulation, neurological communication, and tissue healing.
EXPLANATION OF LIGHT (LASER) THERAPY
Light therapy is not a new concept. The sun's photonic rays cause a seed to sprout through RNA and DNA changes. The sun's rays are full-spectrum light, which means many wavelengths are present (400-800 Nanometers), but only one specific wavelength, or frequency, causes the seeds to germinate. In 1924 Bose and Einstein, great men of science, predicted the Laser. Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
In 1978, Dr. Frolich helped to establish the Wave Particle Theory, which now forms the foundation of quantum physics and defines the mechanism of life, as we now know it. Human cells, tissue and organs have specific frequencies that regulate important cellular functions such as protein synthesis, cellular division and communication. Frolich used quantum physics to explain that a cells living matrix must produce coherent or laser-like oscillations, unique resonance's. He stated that these resonance's serve as signals that integrate processes such as growth, injury repair, immune mediation and the overall functioning of the organism. Each molecule, cell, tissue and organ has an ideal resonance frequency that coordinates its activity. Using certain laser frequencies can alter or balance the body's systemic defense and repair mechanism.
In 1994, Dr. Smith stated that pathologies manifest themselves as chemical imbalances with the underlying cause being electromagnetic. By applying a specific frequency, normal function and balance can be restored. Physicists Schawlow and Townes brought the laser into modern medical arenas, where they are being used for a variety of treatments. Most of the lasers used in the medical field have been High Frequency Hot Lasers, which are catabolic (destructive) in nature such as the ones used in eye surgery. Cold Lasers are anabolic, or regenerative in nature.
Laser therapy is based on photochemical and photobiological effects of the cells and tissues. With laser light, cell functions are stimulated, especially the increase of a cells ATP (energy). This increase in ATP synthesis is associated with increased cell metabolism; increase collagen synthesis, stimulation of DNA formation, improved immune system function and increased new formation of capillaries. The laser also has been shown to increase neurotransmitters (serotonin), to increase enhance tissue regeneration through increasing fibroblasts and keratinocytes, to increase antioxidants and to accelerate bone and scar healing.
The Erchonia PL 5000 is a low frequency laser, with a very specific (630-640) 635 Nanometer wavelength. The frequencies are the pulsations that can be programmed in by the doctor for different purposes (i.e., muscle growth, inflammation, etc.). The PL 5000 has two laser heads with the capacity to distribute four frequencies at the same time. It uses coherent light, which is light traveling in the same direction at the same wavelength. The human cell functions at 630-640 nanometers (NM). It has been documented that DNA replication occurs at 635 NM, and cellular phagocytosis (cellular housecleaning or detoxification) happens at 634 NM, and that injured neurons (nerve cells) heal best at 635 NM.
Most significantly, research shows that every cell has a least three kinds of basic receptors for neurotransmitters (i.e., serotonin, dopamine), hormones (insulin, thyroid, estrogen) and photoreceptors. The laser affects the human cells through the photoreceptors, causing a physiological effect. Nerves, for example, are affected by the temperature, the pH within the cell, the oxygen available, and the amount of ATP (a cellular unit of energy) available. The laser stimulates ATP production and oxygen at a cellular level, which activates enzymatic cascades that help the cell to detoxify itself. These changes result in activating cells or nerves and setting up an environment in which they function best.
Accelerated healing, the primary goal for any kind of injury, is hard to demonstrate in one laser session. However, your chiropractor can demonstrate the ability to increase your range of motion (ROM) and increase muscle strength by testing you before and after the laser treatment. By increasing your ROM, you are preserving the function and structure of your cartilage and discs. Movement brings vital nutrients and fluids to cartilage and discs. The less your neck, spine or joints move, the sooner breakdown begins. Joint degeneration, or cartilage starvation, is osteoarthritis, which can cause considerable pain and is progressive in nature. Disc breakdown is degenerative disc disease. This can cause bone spurs pressing on nerves, causing pain, such as sciatica. The muscle strength test is performed in order to test nerve root function, not just muscle performance. Testing the deltoid strength bilaterally, for example, is evaluating the function of the C5 nerve root. Restored muscle strength actually indicates that the nerve root has been reactivated. With a properly functioning nervous system, balanced muscle strength is available to optimally perform three vital functions: to move the body and joints, to stabilize joints, and to inhibit pain at the spinal cord level.
