A method is provided for stimulating a nerve or a severed nerve by placing a low power laser, preferably a photodiode laser, near the nerve and irradiating the nerve with the output from the laser. An end organ response is elicited upon irradiation of the attached nerve fiber. The output from the laser is of a nondestructive intensity such that the nerve and the tissue surrounding the nerve are not injured. The photochemical stimulation of the nerve is enhanced by staining the nerve to be stimul...

A detoxification method includes immersing at least a portion of a patient's body within a reservoir filled with water; generating ions within the water; and simultaneously with the generating ions, irradiating a predetermined area of the therapy subject with light generated by a cold laser. The generated light may be irradiated to the patient as either a continuous beam or a pulsed beam. The ions generated within the water may be positive, negative, or combinations thereof. Further, the light m...

Light irradiation having a wavelength of 380-1200 nm was found to have beneficial healing properties on the nervous system. By the method, the regeneration of an injured spinal cord is induced by transplanting a nerve graft into an injured site of the spinal cord and post-operatively irradiating with light having the above specified wavelength.

Skin including wrinkles is irradiated with laser radiation having a wavelength between about 525 and 550 nanometers. The irradiation is delivered at a fluence that stimulates wound healing responses without actually inflicting a wound. This promotes deposition of dermal extracellular matrix. Absorption properties of hemoglobin and melanin in the 525 to 550 nanometer wavelength range provide that wound healing response is concentrated close to upper regions of the skin and accordingly close to th...

A method of detecting and correcting a debilitating causative factor of a health issue in a human system includes the steps of determining a debilitating causative factor in the human system and treating the human system by subjecting the human system to a low level laser having a deactivating frequency corresponding to the debilitating causative factor.

A radiation delivery module (8) includes a body (48) supportable on a patient's skin and defines a skin surface plane generally aligned with the patient's skin surface (40). A radiation source (22) is mounted to the body and produces a beam (34) of tissue-damaging radiation directed transverse to and at the skin surface plane. The radiation beam creates a radiation spot (42) having a length (36) and a width (44) at the skin surface plane, the length being at least about 5 to 10 times the width. ...

The invention relates to an assembly for regulating the energy circulating in the meridians. It is characterized in that the said assembly comprises two identical apparatuses, each designed only to emit the said wave (13) exclusively, at full power and at two pulse frequencies which only vary at a ratio of one to two. Application to acupuncture.

A laser non-ablative laser method that will accelerate and improve wound healing, particularly in situations where complicating factors are present. In particular, it is believed that the present invention produces selective papillary dermal injury which activates the production of fibroblasts and stimulates the synthesis of collagen to promote wound healing. Additionally, the likelihood of infection at the wound site is reduced by simultaneously employing a transparent wound cover that allows f...

A laser therapeutic apparatus having an oscillator for generating a laser beam, a condenser lens for condensing the laser beam radiated from the oscillator, a plurality of optical fiber cables for guiding the condensed laser beam, and a probe connected to the distal end of each of the optical fiber cables to apply the laser beam to an affected part of a human body. The probe may be detachably connected to the distal end of the optical fiber through an optical connector. A plurality of optical fi...

This semiconductor laser treatment unit is constructed of a laser radiation device 1 and a control box 67 which houses a control mechanism for controlling this laser radiation device 1. The laser radiation device has at its tip a cap 3 which has a pair of touch sensors 69 in the vicinity of a laser emission aperture 68, multiple semiconductor lasers 10, and a series of lenses which make the laser beams emitted from the semiconductor lasers parallel and also focus them to a single point to form a...