Light Therapy Products for Pain Relief,depression,acne, skin care issues
December 26, 2010 by kevin
Filed under LED Light Therapy
You may or may not have heard of infrared light therapy before now. After being used in Europe, NASA, and many hospitals for years, infrared light therapy has built up quite a track record for being both safe and highly effective when used as directed. The Light Relief unit is now taking the pain relief and therapeutic benefits of infrared light therapy out of the doctor’s office and the hospital and putting it right into the palm of your hand. LightSoundTherapy has hand-held, easy and safe device’s used in the comfort of your own home, which delivers a concentrated pulse of infrared light and heat right where it’s needed: The source of the pain.
In fact, it’s fair to call this therapy infrared pain relief. Infrared pain relief works by gently heating the tissue to which it is applied, promoting muscular relaxation at the pain site. Those receiving infrared pain relief also experience a very pleasant slight warming sensation in the areas where the light is applied. The Light relief unit offers you the freedom to apply this pain relief therapy whenever and wherever you need it, without having to schedule a doctor’s appointment.
Perhaps one of the best things about infrared light therapy is that it’s completely natural pain relief. It’s natural pain relief because there are no drugs or implants used. Infrared light is as natural as sunlight falling onto your skin. Natural pain relief is the best kind of pain relief there is, because there’s nothing to have an adverse reaction to or develop a dependency on. With Light Sound Therapy, natural pain relief is always right at your fingertips. You can feel free to use it in the comfort and privacy of your own home, office, hotel room, or even your car (especially if you order the optional car adapter). The LightSoundTherapy Nova unit is a perfect compliment for anyone with pain issues, stress issues, and skin care issues, used in the comfort of your own home.
Light Therapy and Sound Therapy for Depression
December 8, 2010 by kevin
Filed under Light and Sound therapy for depression
Light therapy and sound therapy for Depression
Light Therapy for Depression and Sleep Problems
The production of the hormone melatonin, a sleep regulator, is inhibited by light and permitted by darkness. To some degree, the reverse is true for serotonin, which has been linked to mood disorders. Hence, for the purpose of manipulating melatonin levels or timing, light boxes providing very specific types of artificial illumination are effective.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD):
People with seasonal affective disorder go into depression like states during the winter months. This is seen in places where the amount of daylight is very less in these seasons (countries near the North Pole, for instance). The cure for these people is full sunlight. So, light boxes which replicate sunlight conditions are used for these patients. These use artificial illumination to re-create the fully lighted atmospheric conditions that are normally present in sunlight.
While full sunlight is preferred for seasonal affective disorder (SAD), light boxes may be effective for the treatment of the condition. The United States Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of light boxes to treat SAD due to unclear results in clinical trials, but light therapy is still seen as a possible form of treatment for SAD. Direct sunlight, reflected into the windows of a home or office by a computer-controlled mirror device called a heliostat, has also been used as a type of light therapy for the treatment of SAD.
It is possible that response to light therapy for SAD could be season dependent.
Dr. Normal E. Rosenthal’s seminal 1985 paper defining Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) was the first to describe application of bright artificial light in the treatment of winter depression. Rosenthal’s hypothesis was that lengthening the daily photoperiod (in effect mimicking summer day length in the northern latitudes) would effect a remission of winter depressive symptoms.
Non-seasonal depression
Light therapy has also been suggested in the treatment of non-seasonal depression and other psychiatric disturbances, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and postpartum depression.. A meta-analysis by the Cochrane Collaboration concluded that “For patients suffering from non-seasonal depression, light therapy offers modest though promising antidepressive efficacy”.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorders
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS):
People suffering with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS) have problems sleeping and often end up falling asleep way past midnight and thus have difficulty waking up in the morning. In these cases the light must be provided as soon as the patient wakes up. Light therapy is useful for the people suffering from DSPS because it causes dawn simulation.
Chronic CRSD
In the management of circadian rhythm disorders such as delayed sleep phase syndrome, the timing of light exposure is critical. For DSPS, the light must be provided as soon after spontaneous awakening as possible to achieve the desired effect, as shown by the phase response curve for light in humans. Some users have reported success with lights that turn on shortly ”before” awakening (dawn simulation). Morning use may also be effective for non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome, while evening use is recommended for advanced sleep phase syndrome.
Other Benefits of Bright Light Therapy
Increasingly, light therapy is being used to reset our body clocks – sometimes along with melatonin and sometimes on its own-no matter how or why they’ve been put off track. Scientists are discovering that light therapy may have potential for treatment of several other disorders in addition to that of SAD. Another area where bright light therapy has proven itself beneficial is in the area of sleep disorders. Advanced sleep phase syndrome (ASPS) is characterized by premature sleep onset and early morning awakening. Future applications of bright light therapy may well include any area where a disease or syndrome recurs seasonally, shows winter exacerbation, or plausibly is related to insufficient or ill-timed outdoor light exposure regardless of the season.
* Early Morning Insomnia
* Night-owl insomnia
* Jet Lag
* Productivity Enhancement
* Bulimia
* Late-shift drowsiness
* Nonseasonal depression
* Prolonged menstrual cycles
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Light Therapy for Depression with LightSoundTherapy
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January 6, 2011, 4:15 PM
Light Therapy for Depression
By RONI CARYN RABIN
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/light-therapy-for-depression/
A light box provides artificial light to ease depression.
Antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil are widely used to treat depression, but a much less costly alternative called bright light therapy, in which a patient sits under an artificial light for a set period of time each day, is not. Light therapy is typically recommended for seasonal affective disorder, the “winter blues” brought on by shorter days and limited sun. Some psychiatrists prescribe it for this condition, often as a last resort when patients fail to respond to drugs.
One reason light therapy hasn’t been used in more people with depression is that there aren’t many good clinical trials of the therapy in depressed patients without seasonal affective disorder. There isn’t much money to be made from the treatment — all it involves is a one-time purchase of a special lamp. The upside is that it has few, if any, side effects (though, doctors note, it should always be done in consultation with a physician).
Now a new, carefully designed randomized controlled trial — of the kind considered the gold standard in medicine — suggests bright light therapy deserves a closer look.
The study was small, involving only 89 patients ages 60 and older, but the results were remarkable. Compared with a placebo, light therapy improved mood just as well as conventional antidepressant medications, said Dr. Ritsaert Lieverse, the paper’s lead author and a psychiatrist at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam.
“The effect sizes we found in this study are comparable to those reported for antidepressants, so I think efficacy is of comparable magnitude,” Dr. Lieverse said in an e-mail.
The report was published this week in The Archives of General Psychiatry.
Participants were evaluated at the beginning of the study using the Hamilton Scale for Depression, a questionnaire that doctors use to assess the severity of depression. They were then randomly assigned for three weeks to either bright light therapy or a dummy red light used as a placebo for comparison.
Since depression is often accompanied by poor sleep and other symptoms suggestive of circadian rhythm disruption, the scientists also examined markers of circadian function. The theory is that bright light therapy may act to elevate mood by activating the brain’s so-called circadian pacemaker, a structure called the suprachiasmatic nucleus. As part of the study, researchers assessed sleep quality and measured patients’ melatonin, a hormone critical for sleep-wake cycles, and urinary cortisol and salivary cortisol levels, measures of stress.
Dr. Lieverse said bright light therapy may also work by targeting depression-associated neurotransmitter systems that regulate serotonin and dopamine.
After three weeks of treatment, 43 percent of the patients who received bright light therapy had improved scores on the depression scale, compared with 36 percent of those who were assigned to the placebo treatment.
Treatment was then stopped, and patients were evaluated again three weeks later. Interestingly, those who had received the light therapy continued to improve, with 54 percent now having an improved score on the depression scale, while improvement declined in the placebo group, to 33 percent.
Those who got the active treatment were also sleeping better; their urinary and salivary cortisol levels dropped compared with the placebo group, and their melatonin levels increased steeply in the evenings in comparison to the placebo group.
Bright light therapy is already indicated for specific conditions like certain sleep disorders, jet lag, Alzheimer’s disease and postpartum depression, Dr. Lieverse said, but should be considered for major depression because of its benefits, especially the apparent lack of adverse side effects.
“Light therapy is now evolving as an effective depression treatment not only to be used in seasonal affective disorder,” he said.
NOVA vs Botox
November 27, 2010 by wfleonard
Filed under LED Light Therapy
NOVA vs. Botox Injections
| Botox Injections | NOVA | |
|---|---|---|
| Facial Expression | Paralyses the muscles of the face and impedes muscle movement. | Improves muscle and tissue tone and lifts facial features. |
| Facial sag | Can cause the skin of the forehead to sag | Improves facial tone, making the eyes wider and more youthful looking. |
| Wrinkles | Reduces the depth of wrinkles | Reduces the depth of wrinkles |
| Time of onset | Almost immediate, some swelling from the injection for about a week. | When used as directed, gradual improvement can be visibly seen after 3 weeks, continued improvement up to 3 months |
| Side Effects | As with any invasive treatment there are numerous side effects including infection of the injection site and facial sag in the hands of an inexperienced operators. | No side effects recorded. |
| Bags under the eyes | No effect | Reduces the size of the bags under the eyes |
| Loose skin above the top lids | No effect | Visibly Shrinks the loose skin above the top lids |
| Age Reversal | No Effect | Rejuvenates the skin and superficial tissue by as much as 10 years |
Healthcare reform must work for indi. with Diabetes
| Lack of insurance and high health care costs are forcing many people with diabetes to cut back on – or even go without – doctor visits, medications and diabetes supplies.
Our current health care system fails to ensure access to adequate and affordable health coverage, especially for those living with a chronic health condition like diabetes. Without adequate care, too many suffer needlessly from preventable and costly complications like amputation, blindness, heart and kidney disease. The current health care system needs to be changed. Health care reform needs to ensure:
This is the only way to change the future of diabetes in our country. Tell your members of Congress to adopt a health care system that works for people with chronic disease! >> There are nearly 24 million children and adults in our country who are living with diabetes and another 57 million have pre-diabetes. Thank you for taking action today!
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