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Light Therapy
Douglas Adams asked:
Light therapy—controlled exposure to bright light-continues to play a role in conventional medical practice as well as its alternative cousins. Its most typical applications operate by abortion through the skin: Doctors expose newborns to blue light to cure jaundice. And dermatologists frequently prescribe sunlight or ultraviolet light to heal psoriasis and certain kinds of dermatitis.
Lasers offer a form of light therapy on the cutting edge of medicine, so to speak. Their highly concentrated light beams are now used to perform surgical procedures and dentistry without damaging surrounding tissues and so are less invasive than the most finely honed scalpel.
But the core of phototherapy, as light therapy is also called, capitalizes on light’s effects on the central nervous system, especially the body’s clock. The form of light therapy, which focuses mainly on circadian (daily) and seasonal biorhythms, is under active investigation by researchers around the world. Mainly used to treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD), it may one day become part of standard treatment for nonseasonal depression, insomnia, jet lag, problems adjusting to working different shifts, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), menstrual irregularity, and other conditions.
Most of this newer form of light therapy involves short periods of exposure to an intense form of artificial light that simulates daylight. Its effectiveness results more from the light absorbed through the skin. The artificial lights used to regulate body rhythms need to be intense, because typical indoor lighting is far too weak to affect the hormones involved.
Light therapy—controlled exposure to bright light-continues to play a role in conventional medical practice as well as its alternative cousins. Its most typical applications operate by abortion through the skin: Doctors expose newborns to blue light to cure jaundice. And dermatologists frequently prescribe sunlight or ultraviolet light to heal psoriasis and certain kinds of dermatitis.
Lasers offer a form of light therapy on the cutting edge of medicine, so to speak. Their highly concentrated light beams are now used to perform surgical procedures and dentistry without damaging surrounding tissues and so are less invasive than the most finely honed scalpel.
But the core of phototherapy, as light therapy is also called, capitalizes on light’s effects on the central nervous system, especially the body’s clock. The form of light therapy, which focuses mainly on circadian (daily) and seasonal biorhythms, is under active investigation by researchers around the world. Mainly used to treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD), it may one day become part of standard treatment for nonseasonal depression, insomnia, jet lag, problems adjusting to working different shifts, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), menstrual irregularity, and other conditions.
Most of this newer form of light therapy involves short periods of exposure to an intense form of artificial light that simulates daylight. Its effectiveness results more from the light absorbed through the skin. The artificial lights used to regulate body rhythms need to be intense, because typical indoor lighting is far too weak to affect the hormones involved.
Light Therapy Glasses Luminette Finally in England
Light therapy asked:
Although English people are only just starting to discover light therapy lamps, there is a new product on the market : the light therapy glasses called LUMINETTE.
This products’ clarification was done by researchers of Liège University and its’ industriel partners who wanted to creat an original model giving maximum theraputic effectiveness bringing the source of light to the eye without any complications.
The advantage of this high-tech product is that you can wear it while going about your business and still benefit from the light therapy at work or while doing your daily activities without any discomfort you can even wear the luminette with perscription glasses.
A reminder for those who do not know about light therapy yet. It is just as the name suggests therapy from lights. Light therapy started in the United States thanks to a famous professor Rosenthal who first discovered the link between winter depression also called seasonal depression and the lack of light.
The treatment consists of a daily exposure to a light therapy medical lamp due to a loss of sunlight in winter. It helps to beat seasonal depression, tiredness, gloomy humour and to find energy and vitality in the middle of winter.
The use of these lamps is also recommended to night workers to people who do alot of travelling, to compensate for the effects of jet lag. In these 2 cases, the straightforwardness and the easiness of the use of the luminette can be particularly appreciated.
Although English people are only just starting to discover light therapy lamps, there is a new product on the market : the light therapy glasses called LUMINETTE.
This products’ clarification was done by researchers of Liège University and its’ industriel partners who wanted to creat an original model giving maximum theraputic effectiveness bringing the source of light to the eye without any complications.
The advantage of this high-tech product is that you can wear it while going about your business and still benefit from the light therapy at work or while doing your daily activities without any discomfort you can even wear the luminette with perscription glasses.
A reminder for those who do not know about light therapy yet. It is just as the name suggests therapy from lights. Light therapy started in the United States thanks to a famous professor Rosenthal who first discovered the link between winter depression also called seasonal depression and the lack of light.
The treatment consists of a daily exposure to a light therapy medical lamp due to a loss of sunlight in winter. It helps to beat seasonal depression, tiredness, gloomy humour and to find energy and vitality in the middle of winter.
The use of these lamps is also recommended to night workers to people who do alot of travelling, to compensate for the effects of jet lag. In these 2 cases, the straightforwardness and the easiness of the use of the luminette can be particularly appreciated.