Red Light Therapy

Some of the Benefits of Red Light Therapy

Three key uses of Red Light Therapy are analgesia, the treatment of neurological issues, and promoting wound healing, tissue repair, and the prevention of tissue death. It is also used to reduce inflammation and edema brought on by traumas or chronic conditions.

These uses can be found in a variety of clinical contexts, including rheumatology, dentistry, dermatology, and physical therapy.

Red Light Therapy Improves Muscle Recovery and Performance

From everything we’ve discussed so far about Red Light Therapy, it’s relatively easy to see why it could improve performance and muscle recovery.

To begin, exposing different layers of the skin to pure red light boosts cellular metabolism. What does this mean in terms of muscle healing and performance?

Red Light Therapy administered intravenously improves the tissue’s hypoxia, which causes the metabolism of the tissue to return to normal. Along with a restoration of cell membrane potential, ATP production increases. Also, vasodilatation results in the de-blocking of capillaries and collateral arteries.

Red Light Therapy sessions increase cellular activity by stimulating the cells to produce more ATP/energy. Because the cells have access to cleaner, more efficient energy, their performance improves and they function more effectively.

Furthermore, because stimulating cells in this way improves circulation and cellular communication, Red Light Therapy can improve cellular and overall body and brain performance.

This is how it works:

What is the Connection?

There’s a reason why top athletes and experts advocate adopting Red Light Therapy as a technique to improve physical performance, muscle growth, and recuperation time after training, it works. Red Light Therapy has been used by Olympians, NFL all-stars, NBA teams, boxers, and professional gyms due to several research studies demonstrating its effectiveness as a performance and recovery tool.

Researchers set out to determine the effect of red light and near infrared light therapy on strength training in healthy men in a 2011 study, and they discovered that combining strength training and light therapy leads to improved muscular performance and recovery, especially when compared to the test group’s results.

Red Light Therapy increases grip strength, according to a controlled study published in 2014. Researchers discovered a 52% increase in grip/hand-based exercises throughout strength training sessions in this study.

In a 2016 scientific investigation, researchers wanted to see how red light therapy sessions affected strength training in men aged 18-35. According to the study, men who participated in strength training and Red Light Therapy sessions showed enhanced mobility/torque and strength when performing leg-based activities such as leg presses and extensions. They discovered that using phototherapy before strength training sessions increases strength and is extremely useful for post-workout recovery.

Muscle Growth

Given what we know about red light and near infrared light therapy, it is easy to see why Red Light Therapy would be effective for muscle recovery, strength, and performance.

Furthermore, because of its anti-oxidation effect on cells, muscle fatigue decreases, which leads to improved performance and an increase in the production of heat hormones. These hormones are critical proteins that ensure cell health and operation by protecting cells from chronic oxidation, mutations, decay, and eventual death.

Red Light Therapy also improves blood flow. When your muscles receive more blood, they perform better, can withstand more, and heal more quickly.

Red Light Therapy Improves Inflammation and Reduces Joint Pain

The lymphatic system, the body’s waste and poisons management system, is activated by natural and pure red light. Increased activity in this system, according to scientific evidence, decreases inflammation and swelling.

Red Light Therapy has evolved into a therapeutic technique for reducing inflammation, edema, and chronic joint disorders as well as promoting wound healing, deep tissue healing, and nerve regeneration.

What exactly does this mean?

It means that using red light therapy for inflammation-based ailments like arthritis can be beneficial and, as various research studies have shown, highly effective because it acts on the cell nuclei, thus treating the root cause of the problem. Remember, Red Light Therapy activates your cells’ ability to create ATP, the bodies most important molecule.

Numerous studies have shown that Red Light Therapy is both safe and effective as a joint pain management system and a method of managing arthritis. 

Red Light Therapy Improves Cognitive Function in Traumatic Brain Injury

TBI is the most common type of traumatic injury in the world, and an estimated 69 million people are affected by it each year. There are over 1,700,000 people examined for traumatic brain injury (TBI) per year in the United States, or three TBIs every minute.

The only other treatment know to be effective for TBI is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. The reason there are not more effective treatments is largely due to the incomplete understanding of the underlying biological pathways. Studying real people who are experiencing severe trauma is incredibly difficult.

The helmet’s transcranial Red Light Therapy photobiomodulation technology has been utilized to treat Alzheimer’s disease symptoms as well as depression, Parkinson’s disease, and traumatic brain injuries (TBI)-related symptoms.

Although near-infrared LLLT has been proposed for a number of applications, there have been few, if any, trials testing this technology on the brain, and none on TBI patients. A study on stroke victims revealed that near-infrared LLLT is neuroprotective through a mechanism mediated by specialized intracellular organelles known as mitochondria.

The study also demonstrated that light has an effect on cells. Although the existence of light receptors in cells is well known, researchers still had many unanswered questions before the trial, including whether the light would pass through the scalp and skull, whether the dose was adequate, and whether it would be sufficient to engage the neural substrates necessary for TBI repair.

This work widens the scope of photomedicine’s potential applications. Transcranial LED therapy is a promising area of research, with the potential to help various brain disorders.