ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Is a wound leaving you scarred?
Dr. Wayne M. Fichter Jr.
If you read my article regularly, I have written about cold laser before. With the advancement of health care, I don’t think anything has advanced as much as laser therapy. I have been asked many times about the laser’s ability to help with wound care. Be it a burn, bruise, cut, post-operative wound care, Cesarean scars, psoriasis, scarring or diabetic wounds, we are getting amazing results with the laser. Research in the field of laser therapy on wound healing has shown that it can positively enhance and accelerate the anti-inflammatory process, collagen production and remodeling phases of wound healing. Studies show that Low-level laser therapy provided a significant decrease in the severity of the inflammatory response in the late phases of wound healing.
Another important part of wound healing is revascularization. The laser has been shown to be very effective in initiating revascularization in injured tissue and increasing blood flow. Thus speeding up the healing process.
When the light source is placed on the wounded tissue involved, photon particles of light penetrate into the area and are absorbed by the mitochondria. This process results in improved cellular health through increased production of adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP). ATP is what the body uses for energy. This reaction initiates a cascade of physiological effects, including stimulation of inflammatory mediators and proliferation of key cell types involved in the remodeling process.
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