- Laser therapy: will it help you to laser treatment?
- Effects on humans
What is laser and its species
Laser therapy or laser treatment is a method of physical therapy, which consists in the use of laser energy to treat a variety of diseases. Laser - an abbreviation, which translated to English means "light amplification by stimulated emission," it is also called optical maser.
Laser radiation is different from other kinds of light so that it has the same optical wavelength and moves in one direction, so these rays are easier to manage, creating greater or less than the radiation intensity. This light, which is composed of a single color or a narrow range of colors. Thus, it was found that the best therapeutic effect has red light of the laser radiation, which is used in the helium-neon lasers.
Lasers are used for medical treatment of various diseases (laser therapy), surgery as a scalpel (laser surgery), and for the treatment of malignant tumors (PDT).
How to operate the laser rays on the human body
Under the influence of the laser, which emits light beams of low intensity due to local heating of the tissue, whereby cells of the tissue are released calcium ions, causing a series of biochemical processes, including activation of intracellular metabolism
Metabolism: The basis of life of all living things
and increasing the functional activity of tissue. These processes contribute to the improvement of local blood circulation - Reduces effects of inflammation, improves tissue nutrition, restores their integrity. This process also has an analgesic effect and strengthens the immune system. Local effects of laser on separate portions of the surface of the human body is capable of exerting a reflex stimulating effect on many organs and systems of the human body. All effects are effects on the laser low-intensity form the basis of laser therapy.
Irradiation of laser beams of higher intensity results in destruction of blood vessels in this area and to tissue destruction. This effect is used in oncology (photodynamic therapy - the destruction of malignant tumor
Malignant tumor: cells are mad
using laser beams of medium intensity at background of application of photosensitizers - specific substances that can selectively accumulate in malignant tumor cells) and surgery (laser beams or high-intensity laser scalpels).
The use of laser therapy
Laser therapy is used to treat a variety of diseases that require increased local exchange processes. It is a variety of diseases of the internal organs (including diseases such as the initial stages of coronary artery disease), musculoskeletal system (both inflammatory and exchange nature), fractures with delayed union, poorly healing wounds and ulcers, and various skin diseases and mucous membranes and so on.
Laser can be used as a local irradiation of tissues (which may be remote - remote or contact with the touch to the point of impact) as well as intravascular laser at which the irradiation of blood cells and choroidal blood vessels through a dedicated fiber from the laser apparatus . As a result of such an impact is a reduction in blood viscosity (prevention and treatment of thrombosis), activation of the immune and hormonal processes. In addition, the use of hollow organs intraorgan irradiation, intracavitary irradiation of cavities and various effects on the body by acupuncture
Reflexology - a policy of non-drug therapies
- At special points on the body surface, which are able to activate or inhibit the work of certain organs or systems.
Contraindications for laser therapy are all kinds of tumors (their growth can be stimulated), blood diseases, some endocrine disorders (for example, increased thyroid function
The thyroid gland - is responsible for your hormones
, Severe diabetes), active tuberculosis, severe diseases of the cardiovascular system, a tendency to bleeding.
Types of equipment
For low-intensity laser therapy is used lasers that in the spectrum of radiation are divided into three groups: ultraviolet, visible and infrared spectra of red. In order for the machine to maintain a constant wavelength are different molecules of gases, vapors (carbon dioxide, argon, copper) or solids (such as rubies). Therefore, lasers are argon, ruby, carbon dioxide and so on, which have different wavelengths.
The wavelength of a laser depends on its depth of penetration into the tissue. Thus, in an ultraviolet laser penetration depth less mm red laser - a few mm in the infrared - several tens mm. In accordance with such a mechanism of action of these or other diseases are treated with various lasers.
Laser - intensively developing a technique that has far-reaching prospects.
Galina Romanenko