Laser Treatment: Efficacy and Contraindications

Laser treatment plays a special role in our days among non-drug therapies. Biostimulating effect on the human body is the effect on the living tissue of the directed light flux.

Advantages

Absorbing the light of the laser, enzymes activate important biochemical processes, which contributes to the renewal of cells, restores their vital functions, including self-regulation mechanisms. Due to this, the natural forces of the living organism are mobilized. Laser treatment leads to the expansion of capillaries, improvement of microcirculation of blood and nutrition of tissues. This accelerates healing processes in inflamed and affected areas. Such therapy increases immunity, the viscosity of blood decreases, and the lymph flow increases. In addition, the level of cholesterol is reduced, the mechanism of anesthesia is activated, the antimicrobial, antiviral and antiallergic effect is enhanced.

Indications

Laser therapy has proved itself in the treatment of skin pathologies, inflammatory diseases of the genitourinary and respiratory systems, as well as certain diseases of the nervous, endocrine and cardiovascular systems. This increases the sensitivity of the body to classical medicamentous treatment, so the duration of the disease is reduced, and the dosage of drugs is reduced. Laser treatment practically does not cause side effects and is an indispensable means of preventing diseases.

This method of therapy has been used since the 60s of the last century. Treatment of prostatitis with a laser has proven itself and is based on what causes a sharp heating of the damaged organ, briefly affecting the prostate tissue.

Today, this technique is also leading in phlebology, since it removes the capillary network and vascular asterisks, birthmarks, hemangiomas, varicose veins. Treatment of veins with a laser is based on the principle of coagulation, which consists in the fact that when blood plasma energy absorbs the energy of the laser beam, hemoglobin of blood is heated, and the walls of the vessels are adhered. As a result, the vessel ceases to function. Coagulation is carried out percutaneously and endovasally, depending on the type and extent of damage. Laser treatment acts directly on the vessels, and surrounding tissues are not injured.

With varicose veins, trophic shin disorders and other diseases, the method of endovasal (intravenous) coagulation is more effective, which is considered to be minimally invasive and sparing.

Contraindications

Contraindications to laser therapy are malignant and benign tumors prone to progression, pulmonary-cardiac and vascular pathologies in the stage of decompensation, thyrotoxicosis, diabetes mellitus during decompensation, active tuberculosis, an excited and feverish state, diseases of the nervous system with extremely high excitability, and in some Cases of individual intolerance to therapy. In complex treatment, antioxidants (eg Aevit, etc.) should be prescribed.