Recently, we have decided to start using laser therapy in our office and I’d like to explain why. While the laser has many great benefits that include decreasing pain, relieving inflammation, and aiding in tissue healing, it also provides amazing benefits for the brain. It’s partly a selfish decision but I hope it makes sense as we continue through this video.
I take the laser home and use it for myself and my family in order to improve blood flow, which is beneficial for the mind. I try to do this every day at home. However, we also have a laser available at our office so all of our patients can reap its rewards on any areas that are experiencing pain or discomfort. This helps them get relief from their issues quickly and effectively.
We have seen great progress in people who suffer from neck and shoulder pain, plantar fasciitis, peripheral neuropathy and lower back pain using this therapy. Now let us delve further into why lasers are so beneficial for both cognitive functioning and physical health alike.
As we age, our brains can start to experience a decline in function which may lead to symptoms such as memory loss, brain fog, and difficulty concentrating. Fortunately, recent research has shown that this process is not necessarily irreversible. Through the use of laser therapy, it is possible to help support the brain’s health and even reverse some of these declines.
We have seen great progress in people who suffer from neck and shoulder pain, plantar fasciitis, peripheral neuropathy and lower back pain using this therapy. Now let us delve further into why lasers are so beneficial for both cognitive functioning and physical health alike.
Over time, nerve cells die. Our diet causes us to form certain kinds of plaques that affect the communication between the nerve cells and decrease blood flow to the brain will cause this process over time to happen. But there’s something that we can do to change that. And our goal is going to be to come up with as many of those positive things that we can, that will help the brain to heal so that if we can create healing faster than it’s breaking down.
You’re probably going to start feeling better and notice clearer thinking and maybe even prevent some of those hard things that can happen to our brain that happen down the road. Things like dementia and Alzheimer’s. There’s some really good studies on laser therapy in that. So let’s talk about what laser therapy can do to your brain.
One increased synaptogenesis. Synapses are the connection between one brain cell and another. That space in between is very important to ensure that we have good communication between the cells in the brain. Over time, we start to lose brain cells and sometimes even lose those connections, those synapses.
Low laser therapy we like to use here, it increases synaptogenesis, which means there’s a formation of new connections between. Those nerve cells. More synapses, more connections are formed while under laser therapy and more synapses mean a healthier brain.
Number two, is increased angiogenesis. Your brain is dependent on blood flow over time because of the stress that we’re under the food that we eat.We can have just like clogging of the arteries that go to our heart, we can have decreased blood flow traveling to the brain as well. It is a very common cause of dementia and memory. Laser therapy increases angiogenesis, forming new blood vessels in the brain. So if you use low laser, low-level laser therapy, you’ll have more brain blood vessels over time.
Also, blood flow will increase. For two reasons. One is the one I mentioned above, but two, it’s gonna dilate the blood vessels and that dilation happens almost instantaneously. So when you combine the dilation of the blood vessels, along with having more blood vessels, that angiogenesis we mentioned before, you can start having permanent blood flow changes and increased blood flow leads to increased brain function.
Number three, anti-apoptosis. Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that incurs in living things. Unfortunately, in the nervous system, when those cells die, it’s very challenging to have new brain cells form. The good news is that we’ve learned that certain things will improve the formation of those new nerve cells, but the joy of laser therapy is that it’ll even keep some of those nerve cells from dying in the first place.
Number four, increase neuron progenitor cells. Neuron progenitor cells are very similar to stem cells, but they’re found in the nervous system. So these cells, when stimulated the right way, will form new neurons. Low level laser therapy is going to increase those neuron progenitor cells.
Number five, increase antioxidants. Oxidative stress will create damage to any part of the body, and the brain’s no exception. The laser therapy has been shown to increase levels of super oxide disputants. It’s a powerful antioxidant, which is going to prevent. Oxidative stress and nerve degeneration.
Number six, increased neurotrophins bdnf, GDNF nerve growth factor. We love neurotrophins because they cause more brain cells to form, but they also increase the function and effectiveness of those brain cells. There’s some good research that shows that exercise increases nerve growth factor, but also laser therapy improves those nerve growth factors as.
So there you go. We got six ways that laser therapy can help improve the function of your brain. There’s some pretty groundbreaking research on Alzheimer’s and autism from the company that uses the lasers that we provide in here. And hopefully that’ll lead to some really important FDA approvals in this area.
And that’s it for today. I’m Dr. Emil Tompkins. I hope you have a great day, and I may take off and go laser in my brain for a bit. Have a good one.
