Red Lights, Cold Lasers, And Other Light For Medical Treatment

" - - - Photobiomodulation is a technique by which light is used to stimulate living things into healing themselves. It has taken the form of handheld lasers, helmets full of LED lights, futuristic tanning beds, and even strange nose clips that shine a light inside the nostril to reach the brain.

"Reviewing the literature on each application of photobiomodulation—from smoking cessation to spinal cord injury, from wound healing to age-related degenerative conditions—would be laborious. Instead, I want to take a bird’s-eye view of the hype around photobiomodulation and point out the sobering context in which it exists: exciting findings in cells and animal models rarely lead to applications in humans, and it is all too easy for overeager scientists to fantasize about how an intervention might work before it has even been shown to work."

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The Hype Around Photobiomodulation

Another "Light Therapy" Quack Treatment

"Without approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a new medical device called UVLrx has hit alternative medicine practices across the country. The device delivers an illuminated cocktail of red, green and ultraviolet wavelengths directly into the bloodstream that is claimed to improve circulation and oxygen saturation, reduce pain, modulate the immune system and lessen inflammation."

Talk about  implausibility, light energy has only demonstrated therapeutic effects on certain skin conditions.

UVLrx Therapy Lights Up Charlatans Dealing In Medical Devices