The Healing Benefits of Laser Therapy
If you’re considering laser therapy to treat your acute or chronic conditions, you’re in the right spot.
At Sports Pro PT, our physical therapists treat our patients with both aquatic therapy and laser therapy to get them relief from pain and help them recover faster.
Laser therapy is particularly effective at treating painful conditions. It works by triggering your body’s own healing abilities. For certain conditions, including temporary pain relief, edema, and inflammation, the effects can be felt after the first treatment, while other conditions, including chronic ones, will start feeling results within the first three treatments.
Curious to know more about this painless procedure? We’ve gathered the six most important benefits of laser therapy, and how it can help you start living a more pain-free life.
The Benefits Of Laser Therapy
While the benefits of laser therapy include treating pain, it is also proven to help with inflammation, healing, and improved blood circulation.
Rapid pain relief
The procedure is painless and non-invasive, and can be used to treat a wide range of conditions.
Laser therapy works by using specific wavelengths of light to penetrate deep into the tissue and stimulate the body’s natural healing process. This helps to reduce inflammation and pain, and promote the healing of damaged tissue.
No side effects
Laser therapy is considered to be a safe and effective treatment option with no known side effects.
The light energy is delivered at a specific intensity and duration that is safe for the patient. What’s more, because the procedure is non-invasive, there’s no use of drugs, chemicals, or surgical incisions. As a result, there is no risk of adverse reactions or side effects from the treatment.
Finally, laser therapy is a painless procedure, so patients do not experience any discomfort during or after the treatment.
Helps heal sprains and strains
Sprains and strains are common injuries that occur when a muscle or ligament is stretched or torn.
Laser therapy can help to reduce inflammation and pain, and promote the healing of the damaged tissue. This can help to speed up the healing process and reduce the risk of long-term complications.
Immediate repair of superficial injuries
Superficial injuries, such as wounds and ulcers, can be difficult to heal and can lead to long-term complications.
Laser therapy helps to promote the healing of these injuries. This can help to reduce inflammation and pain, and promote the formation of new tissue.
Fast improvement of local blood circulation
The focused light energy of laser therapy can help to improve local blood circulation by increasing the amount of oxygen and nutrients that reach the damaged tissue, which leads to faster healing.
Long-lasting relief for chronic conditions
Laser therapy can be used to treat a wide range of chronic conditions, including back pain, arthritis, and chronic fatigue.
By reducing inflammation and pain while promoting the healing of damaged tissue, chronic pain sufferers can expect long-term relief, often with only a few treatments.
How To Get The Most From Your Laser Therapy Treatment
Once you begin your treatment, it is important to follow the treatment’s course. Some patients will start seeing results in as few as 1-3 treatments, but the average course is often 7-10.
By committing to it, we can keep inflammation reduced, allowing for the recovery of normal body function to happen faster.
Book Your Next Laser Therapy Appointment With Sports Pro PT
Laser therapy is a scientifically proven treatment that has been cleared by the FDA to help patients deal with both acute and chronic pain.
To learn more about laser therapy, and to book your appointment, we encourage you to get in touch with our expert therapists at Sports Pro PT today.
