FAQ: What Are The Benefits Of Laser Therapy?

Here at Borja Physical Therapy, our world revolves around our patients’ needs! Our experienced and highly trained team is here to make recovery a reachable goal! We specialize in keeping you active. We empower your decision to heal the natural way, without relying on pain pills, injections, or surgery. So, what are the benefits of laser therapy?

The Benefits Of Laser Therapy

The purpose of laser therapy is to reduce pain and speed up recovery. Whether you’ve been in pain for just a few days or a few months, laser therapy can help.

Laser light improves your healing on a cellular level. Your cells absorb the light, then begin a series of changes in response. As a result, your body starts healing on its own, reducing your pain and swelling in the process.

For example, some of the benefits of laser light include:

• An alternate solution to surgery
• Pre-surgery treatment
• Similarly, post-surgery treatment
• Preventing the use of pain pills
• Significantly accelerate soft tissue healing
• Quick and easy treatment

Laser light can effectively treat acute conditions by bringing pain under control quickly. This helps your overall healing journey by allowing you to stay active and strengthen key muscle groups without being limited by pain.

Laser therapy also treats chronic conditions to combat constant pain, and even promotes circulation to areas with damaged tissue. It’s a powerful alternative solution to reduce pain without the harmful side effects of drugs.

Lasers are used by many college, professional, and Olympic sports teams. They’re used to improve recovery times and reduce the delayed onset muscle soreness, called DOMS.

So, what does this mean for you?

Well, the same technology used to treat the pros can help relieve your aches and pains too. The laser can start healing your damaged tissue and reducing inflammation quickly.

As a result, you’ll experience less pain and stiffness. You’ll be able to return to daily activities and start enjoying the things you once loved doing again.

Improve With Laser Therapy

Here at Borja PT, we use the Lightforce FXi Laser. It’s a quick and easy way to improve your pain. Plus, you’ll feel the effects even after your treatment.

Click here to learn more about our LightForce Laser service or click here to learn about using laser therapy with PT.

About The Author

Jaime Curl

I've explored many different fields within physical therapy, including acute care and oncology at Troy Beaumont Hospital, elementary through high school levels in the Troy School District, and outpatient physical therapy. As the office manager and marketer, I am able to combine my love for health and exercise science with my people skills, all with a dash of marketing and personal training. My hobbies include spending time with friends and family, baking, crafting, and watching my favorite movies or tv shows.