+ Treatment method
The Safe Laser 500 Infra laser should be placed in contact mode on the painful or injured area and illuminated for the specified time, then moved to the next point. (A disposable protective cover for the treatment head can be ordered.) Multiple points can be treated consecutively depending on the size of the painful or injured surface. In general, the “pressure-sensitive” points should be treated.
For maximum safety, switch on the laser only after placing it on the skin surface to avoid accidental eye exposure to laser light! At the end of the treatment, before removing the device from the skin surface, switch it off!
The target layer deeper than 8 cm can be reached better by slightly pressing the Safe Laser 500 Infra treatment head into the tissues. If, for example, the laser cannot be placed on the skin surface due to an open wound, it should be held as close as possible (max. 0.5 cm); in this case, however, the treatment time must be extended by 1 minute per point so that the appropriate amount of energy needed for healing can enter the body!
Advice from our Safe Laser expert, Dr. Gergely Pelsőczi, specialist surgeon, regarding the treatment procedure:
+ Treatment frequency
The frequency of treatments depends on how long the condition has been present. (How long ago did the problem arise?)
1. Acute conditions (the condition developed recently) and postoperative cases: Treatment should be applied daily for 1–2 weeks, then 3 times per week until symptoms disappear. Improvement can be noticed during the first treatment or within 1 day! (For acute conditions, treatment can be performed for as long as improvement is observed even during the first session.)
2. Chronic (prolonged) conditions (developed more than 6–8 weeks ago): Long-standing conditions should be treated less frequently. Use the laser device 3 times per week until symptoms disappear or significantly decrease.
With chronic (long-standing) conditions, recovery naturally takes longer (days, weeks, possibly months). After the first treatments, you may feel mild tingling, or in painful conditions the pain may temporarily increase (treatment reaction), but this is a transient phenomenon. The intensity of pain gradually decreases with the number of treatments and disappears after 3–4 sessions, then improvement begins. The treatment reaction is a normal accompanying phenomenon and a sign that the patient is responding to therapy. If pain increases after treatment, reduce the treatment time and frequency by half. After 3–4 treatments, you can return to the original treatment method.
If we observe that, for example, the painful joint neither improves nor “worsens,” then we probably used too low a dose (too short an irradiation time) during treatment; in this case, the treatment time can be increased by about 2–3 minutes.
If, as a result of regular treatments, the pain possibly increases and becomes more prolonged, this is a sign that we treated with too high a dose. Over-treatment does not cause permanent damage. In such cases, we skip a few treatments and continue therapy with a lower dose (fewer sessions or shorter treatment duration).
One cause of accompanying pain is the sudden restart of microcirculation (blood flow in the smallest vessels) in congested areas. Breakdown products accumulated in stagnant areas (that were not transported away) suddenly enter circulation; therefore, rarely nausea, fatigue, and malaise may occur (after treating large areas with a high dose).
If within a few weeks the pain does not decrease even with the increased dose, then the pain is probably only radiating to this area and the underlying cause is elsewhere.
More frequent or longer treatments do not necessarily speed up healing, because there is a biological limit beyond which irradiation cannot further stimulate the cells!
+ Treatment duration
For different conditions and diseases, different amounts of energy (Joules) are required for effective healing. Higher energy delivery can be ensured by longer irradiation time.
4–10 Joules = 2–2.5 minutes irradiation: Strains, bruises, muscle spasms, improved microcirculation, milder musculoskeletal injuries, acute and chronic inflammations, dental and oral conditions, skin problems.
15 Joules = 3 minutes irradiation: Pain relief, more severe musculoskeletal conditions.
25 Joules = 5 minutes irradiation: Cartilage regeneration, treatment of deeper musculoskeletal injuries, tears of ligaments, muscle and tendon fibers, fractures (initially even 2 times daily).
With fiber optic 4–8 Joules = 15–30 seconds irradiation
+ Identifying treatment areas
For muscles: We palpate the muscles thoroughly and treat the “pressure-sensitive” points.
For joints: We usually treat along the line of the joint space. By bending the limbs, we can “open” the joints and deliver light into the inside of the joint. We also palpate the muscles that move the joint and treat their sensitive points.
For tendons: We treat at the tendon insertion, at the muscle–tendon junction, and at the “pressure-sensitive” points. Even if you do not locate the treatment points precisely, therapy can still be effective, because the Safe Laser Infra light is dispersed over a large surface area.
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