When an injury affects your mobility, quality of life, or ability to do the activities you love to do, there is one goal: a rapid return to your normal activities. Unfortunately, soft tissue injuries such as sprains, tendon, or ligament injuries can take up to 12 weeks to heal. Fortunately, medical advances have allowed us to turbocharge the healing process.
MLS Laser Therapy is an advanced laser technology that can be used to eliminate pain, reduce inflammation in the body and promote tissue repair and regeneration. The MLS Laser Therapy is safe, painless, and non-invasive. This therapy is an FDA-cleared, Class IV (Medical) Laser. This therapy utilizes dual wavelengths of infrared light that can penetrate deep into tissues (up to 2 inches) to target injured areas. The laser treatment is delivered through the robotic head of the MLS laser. The duration and intensity of the laser therapy is tailored to the pathology of the tissue being treated. MLS stands for Multiwave Locked System, referring to the dual wavelengths of laser light.
We are proud to be on the forefront of medical technology by offering advanced treatments like the MLS Laser Therapy and have invested in the best technology as a key component of our continuing quest to provide the finest in healthcare.
How Does Laser Therapy Work?
Lasers use light, and light is energy that can interact with tissue to induce biological effects, such as:
1. Anti-Inflammatory: MLS® Laser Therapy has an anti-edema effect as it causes vasodilation, but also because it activates the lymphatic drainage system which drains swollen areas. As a result, there is a reduction in swelling caused by bruising or inflammation.
2. Analgesic: MLS® Laser Therapy has a beneficial effect on nerve cells. It blocks pain transmitted by these cells to the brain which decreases nerve sensitivity. Also, due to the decreased inflammation, there is less edema and less pain. Another pain blocking mechanism involves the production of high levels of pain killing chemicals such as endorphins and enkephalin from the brain and adrenal gland.
3. Accelerated Tissue Repair and Cell Growth: Photons of light from lasers penetrate deeply into tissue and accelerate cellular reproduction and growth. The laser light increases the energy available to the cell so that the cell can take on nutrients faster and get rid of waste products. As a result of exposure to laser light, damaged cells are repaired faster.
4. Improved Vascular Activity: Laser light will significantly increase the formation of new capillaries in damaged tissue which speeds up the healing process, closes wounds quickly and reduces scar tissue. Additional benefits include acceleration of angiogenesis, which causes temporary vasodilation and increase in the diameter of blood vessels.
5. Increases Metabolic Activity: MLS® Laser Therapy creates higher outputs of specific enzymes, greater oxygen and food particle loads for blood cells.
6. Trigger Points and Acupuncture Points: MLS® Laser Therapy stimulates muscle trigger points and acupuncture points on a noninvasive basis providing musculoskeletal pain relief.
7. Reduced Fibrous (scar) Tissue Formation: MLS® Laser Therapy reduces the formation of scar tissue following tissue damage from cuts, scratches, burns or surgery.
8. Improved Nerve Function: Slow recovery of nerve functions in damaged tissue can result in numbness and impaired limbs. Laser light speeds the process of nerve cell reconnection and increase the amplitude of action potentials to optimize muscle healing.
9. Immunoregulation: Laser light has a direct effect on the immune system by stimulating immunoglobulins and lymphocytes. Laser emissions are absorbed by chromophores (molecule enzymes) that react to laser light. Upon exposure to the laser, the enzyme Flavin mononucleotide is activated and starts the production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which is the major carrier of cell energy and the energy source for all chemical reactions in the cells.
10. Faster Wound Healing: Laser light stimulates fibroblast development in damaged tissue. Fibroblasts are the building blocks of collagen, which is the essential protein required to replace old tissue or to repair tissue injuries. As a result, MLS® Laser Therapy is effective post surgically and in the treatment of open wounds and burns.
The MLS laser uses an 808 nm (nanometer) wavelength of laser light that is particularly useful for targeting inflammation and has a long-lasting effect, as well as a 905 nm wavelength of laser light that provides fast acting pain relief. These 2 wavelengths of laser light are synchronized to treat the injured tissue at the same time.
What Conditions Can Be Treated With MLS Laser Therapy?