Red light therapy is relatively new in terms of people knowing about it and how helpful it is. Even so, there are numerous conditions that benefit from this type of treatment. With countless studies being done on red light, it has the potential to help with even more than what is currently known about.
Recovery Lab of Rancho Cucamonga, CA, is pleased to offer you red light therapy for many reasons. We’ve listed here some of the main conditions red light therapy is used for, so keep reading to learn more.
SAD
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) happens when the days get shorter and there is less natural light; its effect is to cause depression, and it also leads to things like insomnia, listlessness, and lack of appetite.
The best solution for this is often to simply get more light. Red light is perfect for this, as it gives you more light without giving you potentially harmful blue light or UV light.
In short, red light therapy improves your mental state.
Joint Pain
There are many conditions known for causing joint pain, the most common of which include arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome.
As red light promotes healing, it reduces some of the inflammation contributing to the pain you feel on top of lowering the overall amount of swelling in your affected joints.
From a fitness perspective, this is great for helping you be able to work out without suffering for it. However, even from an everyday sort of perspective, less pain and swelling will mean a better quality of life.
Skin Conditions
Since red light therapy assists your body’s natural collagen production, skin conditions that lower your collagen levels or simply require you to make more of it benefit from this treatment.
This covers many things, ranging from psoriasis to wrinkles, scars, eczema, and stretch marks.
While some of these are mostly aesthetic, psoriasis and eczema are often itchy and painful. Although red light therapy should not be the sole treatment used for them – and you should definitely clear it with your doctor first – it is able to offer some additional relief for some people.
Soreness
While not exactly a condition in some respects, sore and aching muscles are something pretty much everyone suffers from at least a few times in their lives. This is even more true of those who try to work out and stay fit.
The soreness in your muscles is caused by multiple factors. The two main ones are the tiny tears in your muscle tissue from overusing them and the waste your muscles make as they burn off the energy that your body can’t always remove fast enough.
In both these cases, red light aids your body to work quickly, causing it to heal the microtears and to detox your muscles in a more timely manner so your muscles don’t get as sore.
