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LIGHT THERAPY
ANCIENT LIGHT THERAPY
Sunlight - Source Of Life
The use of light therapy in medicine has a long history. The first light source used in photo medicine was natural sunlight. Even in ancient Egypt sunlight was used for medical treatments. Later, Hippocrates described the use of sunlight to cure various medical disorders. Although sunlight therapy had no scientific explanation at that time, the healing power of it was clear, and Roman and Arab physicians introduced light therapy into general medical use.
Today it is known that the human organism transforms light into electrochemical energy, which activates a chain of biochemical reactions within cells, stimulating metabolism and reinforcing the immune response of the entire human body.
MODERN LIGHT THERAPY
The Invention
The Danish physician Niels Ryberg Finsen founded modern light therapy about 100 years ago. In 1903 he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in medicine for his achievements with light therapy. Finsen created the first device to generate technically synthesized sunlight and achieved outstanding results in the treatment of patients suffering from a special type of skin tuberculosis. There are clear advantages in using technically synthesized sunrays: for example the parameters of intensity and the emitted light spectrum are controllable and therefore reproducible.
DEVELOPMENT OF BIOPTRON LIGHT THERAPY
At the beginning of the development of photo medicine mostly infrared and ultraviolet parts of the spectrum were used in modern light therapy. In the early 1980s, a research team of scientists created a light source that was originally based on low-level laser therapy but actually worked with almost the whole range of visible light and a portion of infrared light.
The research revealed certain physical characteristics that are essential for the effectiveness of light therapy. Based on this technology later the BIOPTRON Light Therapy System was created.
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