Laser treatment plays a special role among non-drug therapies these days. The biostimulating effect on the human body consists in the effect of a directed light flux on living tissue.
Method advantages
By absorbing laser light, enzymes activate important biochemical processes, which promotes cell renewal, restores their vital activity, including self-regulation mechanisms. Due to this, the natural forces of a living organism are mobilized. Laser treatment leads to capillary expansion, improvement of blood microcirculation and tissue nutrition. This speeds up the healing process in inflamed and affected areas. Such therapy strengthens the immune system, blood viscosity decreases, and lymph flow increases. In addition, the level of cholesterol decreases, the mechanism of pain relief is activated, and the antimicrobial, antiviral and antiallergic effect is enhanced.
Indications
Laser therapy has proven itself in the treatment of skin pathologies, inflammatory diseases of the genitourinary and respiratory systems, as well as some diseases of the nervous, endocrine and cardiovascular systems. At the same time, it increasesthe sensitivity of the body to classical drug treatment, so the duration of the course of the disease is reduced, and the dosage of drugs is reduced. Laser treatment has virtually no side effects and is an indispensable tool for disease prevention.
This method of therapy has been used since the 60s of the last century. Treatment of prostatitis with a laser has proven itself well and is based on the fact that it causes a sharp heating of the damaged organ, briefly affecting the tissues of the prostate.
Today this technique is also leading in phlebology, as it removes the capillary network and spider veins, birthmarks, hemangiomas, varicose veins. Treatment of veins with a laser is based on the principle of coagulation, which consists in the fact that when the blood vessels absorb the energy of the laser beam, the hemoglobin of the blood heats up, and the walls of the vessels stick together. As a result, the vessel stops functioning. Coagulation is carried out percutaneously and endovasally, depending on the type and degree of damage. Laser treatment acts directly on the vessels, and the surrounding tissues are not injured.
With varicose veins, trophic disorders of the lower leg and other diseases, the method of endovasal (intravenous) coagulation, which is considered minimally invasive and sparing, is more effective.
Contraindications
Contraindications to laser therapy are malignant and benign neoplasms, prone to progression, pulmonary andvascular pathology in the stage of decompensation, thyrotoxicosis, diabetes mellitus in the period of decompensation, active tuberculosis, agitated and febrile states, diseases of the nervous system with extremely high excitability, and in some cases individual intolerance to therapy. In complex treatment, the use of antioxidants should be prescribed (for example, the drug "Aevit", etc.).
