We’ve all heard about inflammation—in fact, we all experience different kinds of inflammation for various reasons at any given time. However, the signs can be easy to miss if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Afterall, what does it even really mean? We want to help you understand why inflammation happens and how it can affect your daily and long-term health.
This article gives an overview of inflammation:
Types, Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments.
Then we examine clinical research and the potential for treating chronic inflammation with infrared light therapy, a natural solution that doesn’t come with the distressing side effects of many anti-inflammatory drugs.
How Infrared Light helps to reduce pain, tenderness, sore?
Infrared light therapy is showing immense potential to be just that: a natural inflammation treatment without the pharma risks of traditional NSAIDs. If you’re not familiar with infrared light therapy, the short version is this: light therapy delivers safe, concentrated wavelengths of natural light to your skin and cells.
The infrared wavelengths of light stimulate those cells and reduce oxidative stress, so your body is able to make more usable energy to power itself. This increases function, speeds healing, and lowers pain, as demonstrated in numerous peer-reviewed studies.
Infrared light therapy & inflammatory pain treatment
Red light therapy alleviates chronic inflammation by increasing blood flow to the damaged tissues, and it’s been found in numerous clinical trials to increase the body’s antioxidant defenses.
Red light therapy treatments are part of a healthy lifestyle, and can help support bodily balance and enhanced cellular function.
Like exercise, nutritious eating, and restful sleep, healthy light exposure can have a big impact on managing inflammatory pain.
Red light therapy also supports arthritis and joint pain relief by improving blood flow to damaged tissues. When cells receive the healthy light they need, the whole body has the potential to work more efficiently, with improved circulation and reduced inflammation.
Drugs, Health Risks, & Side Effects
It is often treated with NSAIDs, or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. These include supposed lower-risk, over-the-counter varieties like aspirin and ibuprofen that can treat symptoms of acute pain.
To treat more serious chronic inflammation, people often take prescription NSAIDs, but these have shown numerous risks for people over age 60 and kidney risks for the general population. However, these established inflammatory treatments generally only address the symptoms like pain and swelling, not the root causes, like cellular function, tissue repair and biological imbalance.
Given how common inflammatory conditions are, and the limitation of existing treatments, it’s not surprising that many people are looking beyond NSAIDs and pharmaceuticals for solutions to chronic inflammation and pain. Lifestyle factors (diet, exercise, sleep quality) play a major role in keeping the body in proper balance, so acute inflammation doesn’t become chronic.
Healthy light exposure is also important, so cells can repair, regenerate, and make energy efficiently. In the next section, we’ll look at how light, and specifically red light therapy treatments, can help support the cellular response to inflammatory pain.
Conclusion
Infrared Light Therapy Promotes Balance and Helps Support the Bodies Natural Healing Process
Everyone, no matter their age or health, should be aware of immunological defense and seek greater biological balance in their lives. It is a natural and necessary part of life; our health and wellness depends on our body’s natural response to danger. But chronic inflammation is a serious health risk, and can limit what we can do on a day-to-day basis.
Infrared light therapy supports cellular homeostasis and efficient energy production. In conjunction with a healthy lifestyle, this therapy can have a positive impact on your body’s natural response to immune cells, blood vessels, and molecular mediators. When you get the healthy light you need to make energy and perform at your best, it is less likely to impact your day-to-day life.
If you’re interested in getting started on your infrared light therapy journey or using it for pain and chronic diseases, book your sessions with Healthy Weigh Living, The Villages & Homosassa, Florida USA
