Photon Therapy Denver CO

Photon Therapy

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By Len Saputo, m.d.

Personal experience is a powerful teacher. In March of 2001, I was preparing to take a trip to Australia to represent the United States in the Senior Davis Cup tennis competition. In the over-60 division, playing with pain is more the rule than the exception. But a few weeks before leaving, I developed a serious elbow injury that I was sure would take me out of the competition.

Normally, such an injury would take six weeks to 18 months to heal. So I decided to try the therapy I administer to others on myself—and I was amazed at the results. After five days of twice-daily treatments with a near-infrared light therapy known as photonic stimulation, the pain was totally gone, and I was back on the courts. I even went on to win the world singles title!

I no longer take tennis trips without bringing along the photonic stimulator. In fact, it’s become the “secret weapon” of our Davis Cup team. However, while photonic stimulation may sound like something out of Star Trek, it’s a reality that is poised to become an essential part of medical practice. Studies show that it’s particularly effective for soft-tissue injuries such as muscle pulls, contusions, hematomas, and plantar fasciitis. But it has many other impressive applications as well.

Since I started using this technology nearly three years ago at the Health Medicine Institute (HMI) in Lafayette, California, we’ve treated patients suffering from pain, neurological disorders, and a wide variety of musculoskeletal and soft-tissue maladies. And the results have been remarkable. It is not unusual to reverse decades-long symptoms in a matter of minutes—and the beneficial effects of just a few treatments may be permanent.

The idea isn’t brand new. Infrared scanning has been used as a diagnostic tool for more than 40 years, but the application of light from the infrared part of the spectrum as a treatment is more recent. It started about five years ago with a man named Maurice Bales.

Bales was using infrared technology to identify stress fractures in turbine engine blades for NASA. He also knew that medical doctors had been studying the infrared light emission patterns of the human body, and that many diseases could be diagnosed with this information. He became determined to go one step farther and find a way of using infrared light to actually promote healing and ease pain.

Working with a neurologist and a chiropractor, Bales designed a machine that produced infrared light capable of doing more than he ever imagined: Not only did it relieve pain, it dramatically accelerated healing and helped restore function in diseased tissues.

No one knows exactly how photon therapy works, but we’ve got some good guesses. When you have an injury, blood vessels nourishing the area go into spasm, diminishing blood flow to the site. When you apply the photonic stimulator to the overlying skin, the light penetrates the tissue and dilates blood vessels so blood can flow more freely and...

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