Shining Light on the head: Photo-modulation for brain disorders

Photobiomodulation (PBM) describes the use of red or near-infrared light to stimulate, heal, regenerate, and protect tissue that has either been injured, is degenerating, or else is at risk of dying. One of the organ systems of the human body that is most necessary to life, and whose optimum functioning is most worried about by […]

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The potential of Light therapy in Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease is a movement disorder with cardinal signs of resting tremor, akinesia, and rigidity. These manifest after a progressive death of many dopaminergic neurons of the midbrain. Unfortunately, the progression of this neuronal death has proved difficult to slow and impossible to reverse despite an intense search for the specific causes and for treatments […]

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The potential of intranasal light therapy for brain stimulation

Available evidence supports intranasal light therapy for brain-related conditions such as mild cognitive impairment, Parkinson’s Disease, migraine, stroke. However, the present set of parameters have been based on optimising the results for blood irradiation; which may be holding back its potential for better neurological outcomes. We analysed the literature to arrive at reference parameters for […]

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Effect of Pulsing in Low-Level Light Therapy

Since the introduction of low-level laser (light) therapy in 1967,  over two hundred randomised, double-blinded, and placebo-controlled phase  III   clinical trials have been published from over a dozen countries. Whereas there is some degree of consensus as to the best wavelengths of light and acceptable dosages to be used, there is no agreement on whether […]

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Illness is Healing

Healing literally means to make whole, while Illness usually refers to a person’s personal experience of their unwanted and, or painful physical or mental condition. Usually, in the pursuit of comfort, illness is falsely perceived as the enemy; hence we make judgments and form erroneous beliefs about illness. But what if we could recognise the […]

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Patients healed 41% faster from fractures

Two studies from Harvard Medical School show hypnosis significantly reduces the time it takes to heal from surgery. Study One: Six weeks after an ankle fracture, those in the hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight and a half weeks of healing.

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