SoothIR Benefits Series: Introduction
I thought I would take some time to share my latest vision regarding the benefits of applying near IR light to yourself using our wellness device, the soothIR™. I will be sharing this vision with you throughout our soothIR™ Benefits Series, in which I will explain a new benefit every few days.
When I first heard about Low Level Light (LLLT) treatment, I was a graduate student in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. My advisor told me about the work of a Hungarian scientist, Dr. Andre Mester, who applied a de-focused red ruby laser light onto test animals and noted enhanced wound healing and hair growth(a).
I was very skeptical (as you may be now), and at the time was more interested in the effects of higher power lasers for use in medicine. Indeed, my first vision was for a laser that vaporized tissue at the tip of a fiber optic, the Holmium laser (late 1980s). My second vision was for ablation of atrial fibrillation with a diode laser (early 2000s). Both visions became a reality, and are now mainstream therapies in the medical field.
However, after helping my wife Jean eliminate her arthritis that caused neck pain with a prototype soothIR™, I began to review the scientific literature much closer and was amazed at the progress in understanding the biological effect of certain colors of light, principally red and some near infrared light wavelengths. What I saw in the research was that the application of near IR light can lower inflammation, increase circulation, reduce pain, stimulate wound healing, reduce healing time after traumatic injury, and even help arthritic joints.
It was only then that my latest vision of developing an LED device that could easily apply this near infrared light in a comfortable and convenient fashion using USB power came together. I found that other researchers had utilized the same near IR wavelength in very similar light dosings, but with large, expensive, non wearable units.
With so many diseases now being attributed to inflammation, I dropped everything I was doing and focused my energy on my latest vision, the development of the soothIR™.
The result is a line of inexpensive, comfortable, convenient to use, near IR applicators that are the latest tool in a fight against inflammation and pain, as well as offering several other wellness benefits. Unlike many other therapies, the application of this near IR light feels so nice during the treatment that we believe we can Soothe the World!
Future Topics To Be Covered In Our Series:
1) Photochemical treatment of Inflammation
2) Pain remediation
3) Arthritis remediation
4) Circulation increase effects, Exercise recovery and pre-treat.
5) Reducing “return to play” time in the treatment of acute injuries
(a) Mester E, Szende B, Spiry T and Scher A (1972): Stimulation of wound healing by laser
rays. Acta Chir Acad Sci Hung. 13: 315-324.
Talk soon,
-Ed