Natural or artificial, light can help
Amplify’d from www.altmeds.com
Light Therapy
Light Therapy is the use of natural or artificial light to treat various ailments, primarily depression and sleep disorders. This therapy may be administered by a health care professional or done at home with proper instruction from a trained professional. While exposure to the full-spectrum wavelength of natural sunlight is considered the best form of light therapy, many people are not able to spend enough time outdoors. Therefore, light therapists often recommend treatment with simulated sunlight from light boxes.
The form of light therapy most commonly used today is known as bright-light therapy, which involves sitting near a special light box fitted with high-intensity full-spectrum or white light bulbs. This type of light therapy has been proven to be particularly useful in treating seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as the "winter blues," which is a form of depression that occurs as the amount of daylight wanes with the change of seasons. Light therapy also been shown to be effective for some sleep disorders. There are two other types of Light Therapy:
- Colored-light therapy, which utilizes filtered floodlights or small beams of light to bathe the skin in different shades of color (usually red, but also white, blue, violet, and occasionally other colors), sometimes in flashing patterns.
- Cold laser therapy, also known as soft or low-level laser therapy, in which a beam of low-intensity laser light is focused at a particular area of the body. The treatment is thought to initiate a series of enzymatic reactions and bioelectric events that stimulate the natural healing process at the cellular level. (Information from WholeHealthMD)
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a1bqv6
No comments:
Post a Comment