Its great having the blog - I hear something on the radio about how strokes are 'untreatable', except for a drug to open the blocked artery delivered soon after the event, and I'm able to put up on the blog research which suggests otherwise: strokes are not untreatable! Strokes happen when the mitochondria residing in neurons shut down, because of blocked arteries, leading to the death of brain cells.
In LLLT light is delivered to the mitochondria and increases ATP (energy) . So lets look at the research which supports the use of LLLT for strokes. Here is one interesting study from the USA and Israel:
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/37/10/2620
This research found that continuous wave LLLT delivered around 24 hours after a stroke promoted restoration of neurological function. Laser irradiation did not reduce lesion volume and the beneficial effects were not seen before two to four weeks after the stroke, suggesting that LLLT induces a cascade of processes which include a migration of neurons and neuron supporting cells.
Have a look at this too: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_47/b4059062.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_technology
Dr Lytle recommends to Q1000 owners that they should apply any mode to the back of the head and to the left temple whilst the ambulance is being called for, having recognised the onset of the stroke. And keep the Q1000 applied whilst on the way to hospital.
Can you imagine the COST in quality of life and health care money the longer this research is ignored? If you had a stroke would you wait for 'further research', struggling to reverse the consequences for many many months, or living with them for the rest of your life? Or would you use LLLT, knowing that it could not harm? I know what I would do! Strokes are the third biggest killer in the UK. Isn't it time that LLLT, or cold laser, came out of the 'cold' and into the light? If I had waited for the MS Society to sponsor research on muscle spams in MS and how light could reduce them, my mother would have suffered lack of sleep and distress for the rest of her life. I satisfied myself I could do her no harm, and went ahead and applied the light. What's more the light healed her yellow encrusted weeping skin on her legs too.
Sometimes we have to take our health into our own hands, if those entrusted with our care habitually ignore new advances, when the evidence to demonstrate their effectiveness and safety had been around for the last thirty years.
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