Light Exposure Therapy: An Overview
Light exposure therapy (a.k.a. heliotherapy) uses Patroxidan Review light to achieve health and cosmetic benefits. To achieve these benefits, one of two types of light sources is used: sunlight, or light-emitting devices such as lasers, LED lamps, and fluorescent lamps. In a clinical setting or a salon, the therapy is administered using an artificial source that is often referred to as a "light box." Below are four common health and cosmetic applications for advanced light therapy.
Heliotherapy that achieves a pharmacological effect can be used for pain management. Unlike pain medications that have adverse effects such as constipation, dizziness, and liver toxicity, heliotherapy affects only the nerve endings, altering their structure to prevent them from sending pain signals to the brain. Heliotherapy can also sooth pain by gently warming the affected area.
LED light exposure therapy can improve various skin conditions, particularly melanism, sun damage, oversized pores, eczema, and fine lines and wrinkles. LED advanced light therapy improves these conditions by stimulating metabolic processes in the skin, increasing circulation, increasing nutritional properties in the skin, and increasing the production of collagen and elastin-a list of benefits that "over-the-counter" (OTC) skin improvement solutions do not offer.
Certain sleep disorders are treated with light boxes that emit high-intensity wavelengths toward the patient from a short distance away. Two sleep disorders that are treated this way are chronic Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder (CRSD) and situational CRSD. Soon after waking, and in some cases shortly before waking, the patient is exposed to the box, the light from which creates a response in the brain that helps regulate the person's sleep pattern.