Laser Therapy

Shoulder Pain Therapy Twin Falls, ID

Laser Therapy with Body Balance

Laser Therapy is a treatment option that naturally helps your body speed up the healing process by using a process called Photobiomodulation (PBM). This process can help to decrease your pain and swelling, and many patients see a noticeable improvement after just one treatment.

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How Does Laser Therapy Work?

When the light from the laser is placed on your skin, it gets absorbed in the cells of your muscles. Just like how plants use light from the sun to grow, your body uses the light from the laser to repair itself. When you sustain an injury, your body goes through three primary stages of healing: inflammation, repair, and remodeling. Laser therapy can be beneficial at every stage of injury recovery and can help promote quicker and overall more effective natural healing processes.

How Laser Therapy Can Help You

Laser Therapy for Inflammation

The injured area gets red and puffy and might even feel a little warm to the touch. This is your body’s natural response to any injury. Unfortunately, the swelling you experience can be painful. Imagine you are trying to put your foot in your shoe. On any normal day, this is no problem and causes you no pain. However, if you put on three layers of socks, space in your shoe quickly disappears and after walking for a little bit you start to get blisters. Your body has the exact same response when an injury occurs! Inflammation is just blood flowing into that area to help heal the damaged tissue. Increased blood flow creates less space for movement in that area, which results in pain.

Remodeling Scar Tissue Through Laser Therapy

The final stage of the healing process is remodeling. This simply means training the repaired tissue to perform all the tasks that it had performed prior to injury. Laser Therapy is still beneficial in this stage because not all of the tissue is repaired by this point. The most beneficial thing you can do at this stage of healing is to come to Physical Therapy. With the help of a therapist, you can regain normal movement and improve the strength in the repaired tissue so that you never injure that body part again for the foreseeable future.

Laser Therapy for Muscle Repair

This is where Laser Therapy starts to come into play. Your body will increase blood flow to an injured area in order to bring in cells that can repair the damaged tissue. Laser Therapy and the process of PBM speed up the healing process by giving energy to the cells that are responsible for healing tissue, therefore decreasing the amount of time that someone can spend in the Inflammation stage.

Is Laser Therapy Right For You?

During our evaluation process, our team will collaborate closely with you to identify the most effective treatment plan for your condition.

Whether you're dealing with strains, sprains, workman's comp incidents, nerve damage, back issues, or sports injuries – we've got you covered. At Body Balance Physical Therapy, our commitment is to have a positive impact on your injury rehabilitation journey. Don't let injuries define your life; let us help you to regain your health and well-being. Being hurt doesn't have to last forever!

If you are in pain, have swelling, or an injury that is old and nagging or is more recent, Laser Therapy may be a treatment option for you. This treatment is a game-changer in the rehabilitation realm. Decreased time in pain means faster tissue repair and remodeling. This can mean quicker recovery and less money coming out of your pocket for the medical care of that body part. Patients who have used Laser Therapy in combination with Physical Therapy have prevented surgery, canceled injections, and stopped taking pain medications altogether!

With Laser Therapy, the results speak for themselves. If you want to see for yourself what Laser Therapy can do for you, call Body Balance Physical Therapy today.