Method for pain relief using low power laser light

专利名称：Method for pain relief using low power laser

light

发明人：Edmund Wong申请号：US07/788604申请日：19911106公开号：US05640978A公开日：19970624

摘要：The invention comprises a method for treatment of chronic and referred painsuch as chronic headaches and migraine headaches, as well as pain of the upper back,neck and shoulders, and lower back pain using low power laser light. The source of suchreferred pain involves microscopic and macroscopic tears in the periosteal-osseousjunctions of the upper vertebrae, the scapula, and the skull. These lesions stimulate thegeneration of histamines, kinins, bradykinins, prostaglandin, proteolytic enzymes,seratonin, and other substances which cause numerous localized autonomic reactions,such as muscle spasm, ischemia, local inflammation, edema, as well as generalizedreactions such as increased blood pressure, photophobia, nausea, blurred vision, copiousmucous flow of the nose and sinus, and the like. The muscle spasms are responsible fortransmitting the pain sensation to other portions of the body, and the systemic reactionsare often associated with migraine-type headaches. The sites of the periosteal-osseouslesions can be correlated directly with the distant locus of the referred pain sensation.The laser energy is directed to the sites of the lesions to cause an increase in lymphaticcirculation at the site of the causative lesion in response to the laser energy. Laser energydelivered to the site results in increased blood circulation and cellular metabolism in the

area, which promotes more rapid healing of the lesion.

申请人：DIOLASE CORPORATION

代理人：Howard Cohen

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