FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

On this page you can find answers on the most common questions related to laser treatment:

What is laser and laser medicine?
How laser light is different from ordinary sunlight?
What is the difference between laser therapy and laser surgery?
What is the different between surgical lasers and medical lasers?
How does laser therapy work?
This is what we know about laser therapy today
Where it is practiced? How long?
Are there any scientific researches that prove laser therapy's positive influence?
Does it hurt?
How often should I be treated?
Is there any risk related to laser treatment?
Can laser medicine cause cancer?
Does laser beam go through a body?
Laserpuncture (acupuncture with Laser)
One of lasers can be used as a better substitution for moxa treatment
Possible reactions on treatment

What is laser and laser medicine?

The word LASER means Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Laser medicine is a branch of photo medicine, and photo medicine is a branch of photobiology. Laser medicine is not related to allopathy, also known as the modern system of medicine, developed in the West - a system, which usually treats a disease with drugs.

How laser light is different from ordinary sunlight?

Sunlight is a mixture of seven different colors, whereas Laser light is always of one single color (monochromatic). Sunlight is disorderly whereas laser beam is very orderly (coherent). Sunlight is not parallel whereas laser light runs parallel (collimated). The healing properties of Laser beam come from these differences.

What is the difference between laser therapy and laser surgery?

Most of the patients as well as doctors confuse laser therapy with laser surgery. Both of them are branches of laser medicine. However, laser therapy is entirely different than laser surgery. It encompasses scientific use of healing properties of different laser beams in various diseases to enhance health and beauty.

What is the different between surgical lasers and medical lasers?

Surgical lasers are of very high power, in Watts. Whereas the power of medical lasers is thousands times low, it is milliwatts. Surgical lasers can burn, cut, and ablate. Medical lasers cannot do all that. They just heal without burning, cutting, ablating. Laser therapy utilizes medical lasers, whereas laser surgery needs surgical lasers.

How does laser therapy work?

In short we can say that laser treatment influences local immune defense, blood and lymph circulation, nutrition in cells and production of different substances, for example, endorphins and prostaglandins, which, among other functions, determine a feeling of pain.

Laser radiation can provide a stimulating and normalizing effect. Laser treatment often starts healing processes and implies, first of all, help for self-help. Diverse types of laser influence tissues and cells in different ways. That is why problems that can be treated often depend on what types of laser are available for a therapist.

Laserklinikken has all types of laser, which are being produced in order to treat various problems.

This is what we know about laser therapy today

To understand this you have to study action on tissues and clinical effects of low energy laser.

1. Increase in ATP formation (ATP=Adenosine Tri Phosphate, is a cellular energy);
2. Increase in protein synthesis;
3. Increase in enzymatic activity;
4. Modulating cell multiplication;
5. Immune correction;
6. Improving microcirculation;
7. Anti-inflammatory and analgesic action;
8. Improving collagen synthesis;
9. Correcting lipid metabolism;
etc.

Where it is practiced? How long?

Laser therapy is ultramodern science of healing based on age-old sunlight therapy. Now you could name a developed country and laser medicine would be presented there. Geography of laser medicine is all ex-USSR countries, Russia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Japan, Italy, Canada, USA, UK, Sweden etc. Most of them have laser medicine for more than two to three decades.

Are there any scientific researches that prove laser therapy's positive influence?

There is a great number of them.

Does it hurt?

Laser treatment is relaxing, and many people fall asleep. You can feel more pain from 6 till 24 hours after the treatment. But in chronic condition pain may come back after several treatments. It is not dangerous - it disappears after several hours or days. Increased pain (which is temporary) occurs because laser light have started a healing process.

Not everybody feels more intensive pain, so it is not a rule that all people have to have it more painful in order to feel better or recover completely. From the experience, in cases when stronger pain remains, people need several treatments compared to the cases, when increased pain disappears quicker.

There are also cases, when people feel better after several treatments and then feel more pain, which is also temporary.

How often should I be treated?

At the beginning you have to be treated more often until the healing process has started, then you can have it less frequently. Often chronic problems need to be treated more than acute ones. Patients who live far from the clinic and have problems to come there can be treated during a week with up to two doses per day depending on their condition. This is often not enough either, but then, it is possible to repeat a series of laser treatment in one or two months.

Healing process occurs all the time after you have gone through the treatment and have the process started.

Is there any risk related to laser treatment?

Laser in hands of a qualified therapist is completely harmless. Laser cannot damage fosters or vital organs in a body. It neither causes nor worsens cancer. For the information, Laserklinikken does not treat cancer.

Can laser medicine cause cancer?

Laser beam is very safe because laser medicine generally utilizes wavelengths above 632 nm (nanometer). Therefore the laser beam is not ionizing radiation (which can cause cancer) like X-rays, Gamma rays etc. Sunlight contains cancer causing wavelengths (below 320 nm), which is ultraviolet.

Does laser beam go through a body?

There is no certain limit for penetration of laser light. It spreads in all directions and is absorbed in tissues. Light's intensity weakens the deeper from the target point it goes. The depth effect depends on several different factors: laser waves' frequency, type of tissue (skin and fat tissue are more transparent than muscular tissue, which is rich with blood), pigment and body contamination. Laser light comes also through the bones. When a laser beam touches skin, blood moves to the sides, thus making the area blood-free and increasing the possibility to penetration with laser. Other factors that matter are: laser's initial effect (whether it is superpulse or not), its technical characteristics and the treatment technique.

Local treatment and system treatment. Local treatment implies direct treatment of a problem area. System treatment means that treatment is done on a distance from a problem area.

Laserpuncture (acupuncture with Laser)

Acupuncture with laser is a sterile and painless method. Both laserpuncture and acupuncture with needles influence acupuncture points on a body, but with laser acupuncture the effect can be stronger.

One of lasers can be used as a better substitution for moxa treatment

Moxa is known from acupuncture, Tibet and Chinese medicine. With laser it is more precise. Another advantage is that you can treat several points at a time.

Possible reactions on treatment

In some cases pain may disappear right after the treatment. It is important not to overload the damaged area (for example, an inflamed tendon.) It needs time to heal, and pain that disappeared gives a chance for a healing process to start. Laser may have pain-relieving effect, which can make you overload tendons, muscles or joints without you noticing it. That is why you should be careful with the problem area through the initial period after the treatment.