A non healing wound in an elderly person especially one with diabetes can easily become infected and lead to amputation or worse.
Wound healing light therapy.
Research in the journal anais brasileiros de dermatologia highlights the fact that light therapy may help wound healing in a few ways.
Research indicates that led light therapy can be effective for wound healing and other types of skin damage.
Bioptron hyperlight therapy is an extraordinary technology that offers an effective and economical treatment for complex and non healing wounds on any part of the body including those caused by diabetes vascular disease high blood pressure and other health problems.
Red light therapy used in an medical office setting may be used to treat more serious conditions like psoriasis slow healing wounds and even the side effects of chemotherapy.
When i heard that red light can heal a wound 200 faster 1 is when i fell in love with light therapy.
Low level light therapy lllt is an attractive alternative to enhance wound healing.
Red light therapy has a strong clinical record on healing wounds cuts and incisions and for helping patients recover from surgery faster with less pain and inflammation.
Infrared therapy promotes collagen production as proven in many studies cold laser red light waves stimulates collagen and elastin production in the final wound healing phases.
In the past navy seals used led light therapy to help heal wounds.
So far most studies are performed with red or infrared irradiation.
However we recently showed that blue light 470 nm can significantly influence biological systems improving perfusion by release of nitric oxide from nitrosyl complexes with haemoglobin in a skin flap model in rats.
Light therapy or phototherapy.
A 2018 review examined numerous controlled trials on red light and wound healing.
Healing wounds cuts and incisions with red light.
Red near infrared light speeds wound healing.
The goal of this study was 1 to determine if the wavelengths tested are effective for in vitro wound healing and 2 to compare a laser and a light emitting diode led source at.
However well defined parameters of different light sources for this therapy are lacking.
It helps release atp raw cellular energy which gives energy to the damaged cells in the wound so they can heal better and faster study.
You see i have always loved the elderly.