Low Level Laser Therapy, or Photobiomodulation to give it it’s more common reference, works on the principle that every cell in the body responds to light, different cells being activated by different frequencies or different wave-lengths of light.
Using a mixture of Class 3B Laser and LED, Laser Therapy is used to increase the energy of cells that are working sub-optimally – whether due to injury, stress or disease – by the promotion of the body’s own analgesic, vasodilatory and anti-inflammatory responses .
When stimulated in this way, healing is accelerated – enhancing recovery from soft tissue injuries, wounds, accidental or post-surgical tissue trauma, torn tendons, scarring and fractures, to list but a few of the areas in which it can help. Laser Therapy is also extremely effective in helping to neutralise infection, or where wounds are ‘non-healing’ by conventional medical practice – by strengthening the tissue’s natural responses.
The advantage of Laser Treatment is that there is no drug involvement and no side-effects, leaving it suitable to be administered to drug-sensitive individuals; as an alternative where ‘conventional’ methods have failed; or for use with competitive humans/animals… even on the day of competition.
Acupuncture
Within Chinese medicine the body’s layers, depths, topography and structures are modelled with reference to forms in nature:
“The marrow and bones reflect the essence of mountains and rivers; the blood vessels are like the currents of the great rivers; the muscles and flesh are symbolised by the fields and plains; the skin and interstices are the branches and leaves of plants.” 骨髓者，山川之精也；脈血者，江河之流也；肌肉者，田野之象也；皮膚腠理者，草木之枝葉也 (Chapter 5, Huangdi Neijing Suwen)
The body is thus a microcosm of its environment and subject to the same ever-changing challenges.
Traditional Acupuncture is based on ancient classical principles of harmonising and balancing the body’s energy to promote health and well-being.
Initiated by inserting fine and delicate ‘needles’ into specific acupuncture points on the body, acupuncture can work on three levels – physical, mental or emotional – either in isolation or in combination and is used to help treat a vast variety of physical and/or constitutional problems.
Laser Acupuncture on the other hand, provides a non-invasive way to achieve the same or similar results to Traditional Acupuncture. Using Low Level Laser, instead of needles, directly helps stimulate and gently engage the body’s own energy system, with effect the same changes and results, without the use of needles… and is particularly favoured, but certainly not restricted, to use by the old, the young or the sensitive.
In the Lightworks Clinic, Laser Therapy, Traditional Acupuncture and Laser Acupuncture can be used independently, but are very often used together to provide a very effective treatment modality covering the entire structure of the body
… however the choice is yours !!