Red Light Therapy for Joint Pain & Aging with Forrest Smith – Ep. 218
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The Challenges of Treating Pain and Inflammation With Light Therapy
With the brain device, what we're looking at treating is depression and anxiety. These are things that impact people's quality of life and can create a downward spiral where you have depression. Pain and inflammation are another pathology or a set of symptoms from pathologies that really impact people's lives in a negative way. And with things like osteoarthritis where you have chronic inflammation, there's a degradation of tissue in the joint that really is hard to reverse. So photobioidulation addresses both sides of that homeostasis. It increases the rate of osteoblast and chondroblast proliferation, which are the fast-growing cells that actually start turning into cartilage over time.
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