For thousands of years, many different cultures used heat therapy as a means to stay healthy or heal various ailments. The practice was and remains common in Asian, European and Native American cultures who enjoy routine saunas, steam saunas and sweat lodges. The basic premise involved a rudimentary structure designed…
Light is considered a type of electromagnetic radiation or EMR. Living and non-living entities absorb, emit or reflect electromagnetic radiation. The frequency spectrum spans from the short wavelengths of gamma rays to the long wavelengths of radio waves. Light wavelengths lie in the middle of the frequency spectrum. Visible light…
When the weather gets cold, there are many options that you can turn to to heat your house. But not all options are created the same. You want to be sure that the heating option you choose will warm your house in a way that’s comfortably convenient for you. Sometimes,…
Doctors, nurses, phlebotomists and emergency responder personnel all have occasions in which they must locate a patient’s vein to retrieve blood samples or administer medications. Finding an appropriate vein is not always an easy task. Patients are often subject to multiple venous sticks before health care providers access a vein,…
NASA scientists became aware of the benefits of light therapy for cellular regeneration and healing. Initially, getting the therapeutic effects of phototherapy meant having to visit a dermatologist, therapist or spa. With the introduction of devices designed for in-home use, consumers now have the option of obtaining the same results.…
Once upon a time, a busy mother visited a tanning salon to get red light therapy. She wanted to heal eczema and get rid of stretch marks from pregnancy. The treatments worked, but she didn’t have time to keep going four times per week. Luckily, her husband designed and built…
All around the beauty and healthcare market, there seems to be an abundance of products and technologies that have LED or some form of light therapy at their core. LightStim has come up with a range of useful and affordable products, which use LED light therapy for their functioning and…
Curing lights are commonly used by dentists in order to harden the resins or materials inserted to fill teeth or to apply appliance bonding. The lights are also used to activate teeth whitening and cleaning solutions. The chemical components contained within bonding, filling, cleaning or whitening materials are created to…
Laser hair removal devices emit a focused laser beam onto the skin. The beam passes into the hair follicle and specifically into the melanin pigment of the hair during the active growth phase. The heat directly damages the growing hair, and it eventually sheds. The damage caused inhibits new hair…
Red light therapy is sometimes referred to as biostimulation, light therapy, low-level laser therapy or photonic stimulation. Unlike other wavelengths on the light spectrum, red light penetrates into the skin and causes many different beneficial biological and chemical changes. Although some may consider the treatment quackery, numerous scientific studies indicate…
