Laser Therapy
Fast, pain-free recovery with reduced inflammation
Atlanta Integrative Wellness Centers is a multi-disciplinary center for holistic health and wellness. Advanced laser therapy is used at our clinic to treat sports injuries, acute pain, and chronic joint conditions.
When tissues are damaged, cells begin to die and scar tissue develops. This can delay or even restrict natural healing. Modern-day laser devices feature specific wavelengths of light proven to break down existing scar tissues and stimulate the healing process.
Muscle fibers, ligaments, and tendons must be repaired before true healing can take place. Laser therapy encourages the body’s cells to mend themselves, resulting in fast, pain-free recovery with reduced inflammation.
Safe, Effective Laser Treatment
Laser Therapy, unlike injections and prescription medications, targets the source of pain and discomfort, rather than merely masking symptoms. The treatment entails the use of laser light to treat damaged cells with targeted light energy units in the form of photons. This helps the body’s natural healing process by reducing inflammation, increasing blood flow, stimulating tissue growth, and providing overall accelerated pain relief and healing.
Benefits of Laser Therapy for Pain Relief include:
- Pain Relief That Is Fast And Effective
- Faster Tissue Repair
- Improved Nerve Function
- Non-surgical Treatment Option
- Painless and Non-Invasive
Natural Healing
Lasers have been used for therapeutic purposes for a long time, and recent studies have shown that they may help with recovery after surgery. Laser Therapy aids in the reduction of scar tissue and inflammation while increasing range of motion (ROM). As a result, patients are able to recover more quickly and start physical therapy sooner.
Doctors are now prescribing laser therapy for many common conditions, not only to help the body heal itself but also to avoid surgery altogether. This is especially true when it comes to tendon injuries.
Infrared light promotes microcirculation and oxygen flow into the soft tissue (muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints), accelerating the healing process. This enhanced blood flow significantly speeds up the repair of wounded tissues. Nerve pain can also be treated with laser therapy, which has the potential to greatly reduce discomfort levels.
Atlanta Integrative Wellness Centers is one of the few clinics that offers laser therapy for pain management and faster healing in Atlanta.
Laser Therapy for Sports Injuries: A Non-Surgical Sports Injury Treatment
Post-exercise applications of Laser Therapy are popular among athletes. Laser Therapy improves blood flow in muscles, ligaments, and joints while assisting with the removal of toxins to speed recovery and reduce muscular pain.
Thousands of athletes have benefitted from laser therapy to reduce their recovery times and enhance their performance.
Advantages of Laser Treatment for Pain
The following are some of the advantages of laser therapy on tissues and cells:
- Anti-Inflammation – Laser therapy has an anti-edemic effect. It works to open blood vessels, lower blood pressure, and trigger the lymphatic drainage system to drain trapped fluids and reduce swelling caused by bruising or inflammation.
- Anti-Pain (Analgesic) – Laser Therapy targets and stimulates peripheral nerves, causing them to relax. This reduces nerve sensitivity and stops pain signals from traveling to the brain. With decreased nerve inflammation there is less edema and a noticeable reduction in pain.
- Rapid Tissue Repair and Accelerated Cell Growth – Noninvasive photons of light from the laser penetrate deep into tissue and stimulate the reproduction and development of healthy cells. The laser light maximizes the energy available to the cells, allowing them to absorb nutrients more rapidly and eliminate waste products more effectively. Tendon, ligament, and muscle cells are healed faster as a result of laser exposure.
- Improved Vascular Activity – Evidence has shown that laser light therapy promotes the growth of new capillaries in damaged tissue. As a result, patients benefit from a faster healing process, wounds that heal quickly, and a reduction of scar tissue. Other advantages include the stimulation of blood vessel growth and the temporary widening of blood vessels for improved blood flow.
- Increased Metabolic Activity – Laser Therapy increases the production of specific enzymes, as well as the amount of oxygen and food particles available to blood cells. This enhanced enzymatic activity allows damaged cells to repair and regenerate faster.
- Target Trigger Points and Acupuncture Points – Laser Therapy targets muscular trigger points and acupuncture points, which are non-invasive methods of providing musculoskeletal pain relief. The laser penetrates the damaged, inflamed tissue with photons to energize cells, promote increased blood flow, and boost the production of pain relief chemicals such as endorphins and enkephalins.
- Stop Scar Formation – Lasers promote natural healing by increasing blood flow at the wound site using a highly specific wavelength of light. Photon light therapy inhibits scar tissue formation after an injury, accident, or surgery.
- Improved Nerve Function – Nerve damage can cause tingling, numbness, and immobility. Laser light speeds up the healing of nerve cells by stimulating microcirculation around the nerve fibers, which increases blood flow to the nerves and helps to heal and reduce neuropathic pain.
- Boost Immunoregulation – Laser light has an immunological effect by enhancing immunoglobulins and lymphocytes. Molecule enzymes that react to laser light absorb photons and react chemically. The enzyme, flavomono-nucleotide is activated and starts the production of ATP (adenosine-tri-phosphate), which is the major carrier of cell energy and the energy source for all chemical reactions in the cells.
- Speed Wound Healing – Collagen, an essential protein required to repair tissue injuries, is made up of fibroblasts. Laser light encourages the formation of fibroblasts in damaged tissues, reducing healing times. Laser Therapy has been shown to be effective on open wounds and burns injuries.
Class IV Laser Therapy
Class IV Lasers are often used for joint pain relief due to their ability to relieve discomfort and swelling quickly, this is why they are also known as “The Superpower of Healing”. Many doctors and therapy providers also use laser therapy to reduce inflammation in the body so patients can live a healthier lifestyle with far less pain.
Common Conditions Treated By Laser Therapy include:
- Neck Pain:
- Cervical Strain/Sprain
- Headaches
- Shoulder Pain
- Rotator Cuff Strain
- Biceps Tendonitis
- Mid-Back Pain
- Postural Strain or Overuse
- Hip Pain
- Osteoarthritis
- ITB Syndrome
- Bursitis
- Ankle Pain
- Sprain/Strain
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Elbow Pain
- Tennis and Golfer’s Elbow
- Overuse/Repetitive Strain Injuries
- Wrist Pain
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- De Quervain’s Tenosynovtis
- Lower Back Pain
- Mechanical LBP
- Disc Bulge/Herniation
- Knee Pain
- Jumper’s Knee
- Ligament/Meniscal Injuries
Laser Therapy for Acute and Chronic Injuries
In our cutting edge Laser Therapy, red and violet Class IV lasers are used for healing at the cellular level, resulting in decreased inflammation, scar tissue, and pain. These lasers have been approved by the FDA for use on musculoskeletal issues.
Atlanta Integrative Wellness Centers offer cutting-edge natural treatment options for injuries and pain management. For more information on Effective Laser Therapy that really works, contact our team today.