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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Light Stuff
By Lois Lindstrom Special to The
Washington Post Tuesday, February 17, 2004; page HE01 The New England Patriots
won Super Bowl XXXVIII with some help from a little-known form of laser
technology that change the way athletic injuries and chronic pain are treated. The treatment, known as
“cold” laser therapy or low-level laser therapy (LLLT), has been used
internationally for 18 years to treat soft tissue injuries, cervical neck pain,
carpal tunnel syndrome, repetitive stress injuries, tendonitis, hamstring
injuries, arthritis and wound healing, among others. The lasers – hand-held
flashlight-like devices that direct a beam of narrow-spectrum (but not hot)
light at injured tissue beneath the skin – have been integrated into medical
practice in Japan, Russia and the United Kingdom.
In the United Kingdom, cold laser therapy has become a preferred
treatment for “whiplash” injuries, neuralgia and shingles.
In Japan the lasers were approved in 1987 and are in widespread use
today. In the United States, the
technology received marketing clearance from the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in 2002 for treating carpal tunnel syndrome, a painful inflammation of the
wrists and hands that results from repetitive motion.
But the mainstream medical establishment still considers the cold
laser’s benefits unproven. Most
U.S users are athletic trainers, chiropractors and practitioners of alternative
medicine. Sports and Health While mainstream medicine
remains on the sidelines, practitioners of sports medicine, who are highly
motivated towards ways to heal soft-tissue injuries and bruises, are getting
right into the cold laser game. In the week preceding the
Super Bowl, Boston based registered nurse Ellen Spicuzza treated more than 10
Patriot players with cold laser therapy for tendon and muscle injuries.
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