Cold Laser Therapy

Low level laser therapy is a painless, sterile, non-invasive, drug-free treatment that is used to treat a variety of pain syndromes, injuries, wounds, fractures, neurological conditions and pathologies. Laser therapy can be used any time a patient requests or needs a drug-free procedure for the control of pain, when conventional therapies have been ineffective or when the acceleration of healing from injuries is desired.

The theory for the creation of laser light was proposed by Albert Einstein in 1917, but it was not developed until 1960. It was in the late 1960’s that Professor Endre Mester of Budapest, Hungary first reported his experience using laser light to treat non-healing wounds and ulcers in diabetic patients. Mester’s 70% success rate in treating these wounds led to the development of the science of what he called “laser bio-stimulation.”

Around the world, laser therapy is rapidly becoming a medical therapy that can heal wounds and fractures up to 60% faster and also reduce the cost of treatment for many conditions. In the U.K., low level laser therapy has become the treatment of choice for soft tissue “whiplash” injuries and for the treatment of painful post-hereabouts neuralgia (shingles pain).