How is Red Light Therapy Different From Near Infrared Light Therapy?
By Dr Kelly
June 27, 2023
Transcript:
And there is many other light wavelengths out there.Red light therapy is not the same as near infrared light therapy.Red light therapy is superficial and it's great, but you can get a lot of red light therapy products and you think they're doing all the same things as near infrared.So again, as a medical provider, it's very important to me that I differentiate that, because hear people talking about it wrong all the time.Everybody refers to it as red light.And red light is what you get after you have a facial and after you're working to help the skin.It's wonderful for the skin.And there's green light and there's blue light and they have different health benefits in the body.But the majority of photobiomodulation and the research, the changes that can happen healing nerves.There's research of cutting a nerve using near infrared light therapy and the nerves grow back together.
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