Sports and Dance Injuries -
Laser therapy is ideal in accelerating tissue healing sprained and strained muscles ligaments and tendon, including tendonitis and (RSI.) Repetitive strain injuries.
Laser Acupuncture -Ideal for patients who don’t like acupuncture needles. Studies show it is just as good as acupuncture.
Laser therapy can be also employed to regenerated nerves very good in the treatment of Bells Palsy (paralysis of one side of the face).
Bell’s palsy case study.
An excellent treatment for phantom limb syndrome.
Nerve Regeneration - see the case study under Slipped or Bulging Discs
Temporal mandible pain, TMJ, has been shown to respond well to laser therapy, however a good diagnosis is needed before treatment.
Speeds Up Broken Bone Formation - Laser therapy has been successfully used to accelerate a none union fracture of the hand and foot in weeks.It can be used over metal implants and pins in the joints of the body, unlike ultra sound or electrical medical equipment.
Tinnitus vertigo -Me’nier’s disease.
Laser therapy has been shown to be the only positive treatment for tinnitus the laser therapy goes partly through the meatus of the ear and partly behind the ear normally the problem area is the inner ear.
Trigeminal neuralgia responds well to Laser therapy.
Shingles - Laser therapy has been the only clinical treatment for shingles that is effective, often called the ring of fire, because shingles affects the trunk of the body.
Arthritis - laser therapy has been show to help ease the pain of arthritis.
Carpal tunnel syndrome -Repetitive strain movements of the hand cause carpal tunnel syndrome., a painful and debilitating condition. Unlike other forms of electro therapy laser therapy can be used immediately after an injury making it even quicker to recover from injury. The laser therapy increases the blood supply to the effected wrist improving the microcirculation of the venous blood, this seems to be the first stages of carpal tunnel syndrome hence the tingling and sometimes numb sensation that is associated with the condition.
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