21/03/2024
🔴 Red, Infrared & Blue light Phototherapy 🔵
I’ve recently purchased a second Red and Blue light therapy machine to add to my toolkit to give me more options when treating horses 💪🏻
The new hand held device is battery operated therefore wire free when using which helps with difficult horses that are sensitive to touch when the wires tickle their sides during treatment 🙈
The Optimus Lumina device is small, powerful, simple to use and very portable making it a great piece of kit 👌
Phototherapy is a treatment using artificial light wavelengths from the ultraviolet part of the sun spectrum 🌞 where lights of a certain wavelength can be delivered at a higher intensity, without the light of all the other wavelengths that are heat producing light 🔥
Without going into too much scientific depth on photon absorption, electron bonding and the thermal agitation of molecules, below is a list of effects of each type of phototherapy! 😆
🔴Visible Red & Infrared Light phototherapy 🔴
🔺 Increases proliferation of cells essential for tissue repair
🔺 Increases vasodilation at capillary level
🔺 Accelerates collagen synthesis, the base requirement for tissue repair
🔺 Stimulates epithelial cells growth therefore reducing scar tissue, helps prevents proud flesh
🔺 Encourages the margins of WOUNDS to close together so perfect for any wounds or skin injuries 👌
🔺 Application of red light over acupuncture points changes conductivity of the skin releasing endorphins helping relax the horse
🔵 Blue Light Phototherapy 🔵
🔹 Inhibits bacterial proliferation at the site of wounds which
🔹 Reduces the possibility of infection
🔹 Higher energy levels available in blue light causes an adverse photo chemical reaction in the bacteria damaging or killing it 🦠🔫
I often use my red light down a horses bladder meridian / acupuncture points if I’m struggling to get a horse to allow me to touch them as they are so sore. This helps to relax them to my touch at the start of a treatment then they soon allow me to treat them…. It’s literally like magic! 🤣
It’s also very handy to use on wounds when a horse is extremely reluctant to have you touch their wounds as it’s so non invasive, you can use without touching the horse at all 💪🏻
