Today I make a second visit to a client in their nineties who has had a toe surgically removed due to vascular insufficiency. This occurs when the veins in the leg don't allow blood to flow back up to the heart.
Normally the valves in the veins make sure that blood flows towards the heart. When these valves aren’t working well blood can also flow backwards and cause blood to collect (pool) in the legs.
Having your cake and eating it is not a good idea
The client’s care home is full of cake and all manner of things sweet, so with a serum uric acid score well over the normal range and inflammatory markers running high, is it surprising that his health is compromised?
It’s a tall order, even for Photobiomodulation Therapy – requested by a forward thinking surgeon – to aid his post-surgical recovery.
One simply must not forget the importance of a healthy lifestyle: the cells in our body undergo stress due to such things as excessive sugar in our diets, cigarette smoking and too much sun on our skin. Photobiomodulation Therapy is very good at reducing this stress.
Antibiotics are effective but so is Photobiomodulation
Using light to heal and improve health can be traced back to the pioneering Swiss Physician Auguste Rollier in the early 1900s. In 1903 the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Dr Niels Ryberg Finsen in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, thereby opening a new avenue for medical science.
With the development of antibiotics and in particular, the introduction of penicillin on a large scale in 1945, the limelight was taken away from the study of electromagnetic radiation. Antibiotics have for many years brought great relief and saved many lives from formerly fatal infections. However, today antibiotics are becoming increasingly impotent to bacteria as they remodel themselves and develop resistance.
Random Controlled Trials, peer reviewed papers and research reviews abound
The effects of Photobiomodulation Therapy were documented by Professor Endre Mester at Semmelweis University Budapest in 1967. He decided to use a low-powered ruby laser (694 nm) on shaved mice to see if it was the cause of skin cancer. To his surprise the laser did not cause skin cancer but in fact accelerated the hair growth, causing the shaved areas on the mice to grow hair back faster. He decided to call this effect Laser Biostimulation.
He then spent many years researching his discovery and with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the research became more easily accessible to the wider scientific community. Now there are hundreds of Random Controlled Trials, thousands of papers published in peer reviewed respected journals and hundreds of research reviews.
Photobiomodulation Therapy is safe, non-invasive, and promotes healing, reduces inflammation and pain due to diseased areas, injuries, sores and wounds. Its modern-day effectiveness is due, in no small part, to the refinement of the equipment and development of clinical expertise over many decades.