Infrared Light Therapy
What is Infrared Light Therapy?
- Infrared light therapy involves utilizing the restorative electromagnetic radiation of infrared (Tsai &Hamblin, 2017)
- Infrared light has been found to enhance cell regeneration and repair (News- medical.net)
- Infrared light therapy is widely used across several fields of medicine and science and has been proven to be relatively safe, painless, and non-invasive (News- medical.net)
- Research has shown that infrared therapy has the potential to help with inflammation, pain relief, aging, muscle tension, skin rejuvenation, circulation, and immune system bolstering (News- medical.net)
More Potential Uses For Infrared Light Therapy
Preliminary research has found that infrared light therapy could possibly help with the following conditions:
- Rheumatoid arthritis (Ip, 2015)
- Musculoskeletal injury (Larkin-Kaiser e t al., 2015)•
- Alzheimer's disease(Stepanov, 2022)
- Traumatic brain injury(Morries, Cassano, Henderson, 2015)
- Depression (Henderson & Morries, 2017)
- Infertility (Phypers,Berisha- Muharremi, Hanna, 2024)
- Cancer (Tsai & Hamblin, 2017)
Fun Fact: Both Derrick Henry and LeBron James have used infrared light therapy to promote their own healing after workouts!(Sports Illustrated) (NewYorkPost)