Laser Pain Treatment, Basics
I’m Dr. Harrold Kraft. I want to tell you about an exciting new advance in pain management. This high-powered laser can bring superior pain relief even when other treatments have failed. It’s very well tolerated by the patient and in just a few minutes, the laser penetrates the skin and reduces both the inflammation and the pain.
Most pain starts with injury to your muscles, to your ligaments, your bones or your nerves. Like this nerve that’s being pinched by the disk material that’s escaped from in-between your back bones. No matter what’s causing your pain, the non-surgical options boil down to just 3 main options: shots, pills and laser.
Now, when it comes to shots, the doctor’s always going to tell you that the shot only hurts a little bit. But if you’re the patient, you know that the shots can be painful and a large source of anxiety. At Laser MD, we don’t use any shots. You may also know that doctors often will try and push pills on you. They usually start with a couple of small pills. But soon, you may find yourself needing bigger and bigger doses of medication. The big pills, the big guns, as they say. Often times what happens is even these big pills with mega doses of medication are ineffective in treating your pain. That’s because your body naturally gets used to the larger and larger doses of drugs, so they become less and less effective. You get more and more side effects, and less and less pain relief.
At Laser MD, we don’t use pills or shots. Just recently, high-powered laser have been shown to be very effective at treating pain, and they have 3 main advantages: completely painless, they’re non-invasive, and they’re very effective at reducing the underlying cause of inflammation or injury to your tissues.
The basic mechanism of laser pain relief is simple. High-powered laser light penetrates into your tissues where it’s absorbed by the mitochondria in the cells. The mitochondria produce extra ATP – energizing the cell and increasing the body’s natural healing and restorative processes. At the same time, pain is reduced and nerve function is normalized. Laser therapy can bring substantial relief, even with chronic pain. At Laser MD, we don’t use pills, we don’t use shots – we use laser to treat both your pain and the underlying problem.