Dr. Jen Milus, DC is excited to share with you the revolutionary state of the art K-laser treatment of injuries in her office!
If you or anyone you know is suffering from: 
- Shin splints
- Ankle sprains or pain
- Knee sprains or pain
- Low back or hip pain or injury
- Shoulder pain or injury
- Neck Pain
The K-laser may help! This amazing new treatment has been shown to improve healing time and relieve symptomswith a very high rate of efficacy. Dr. Milus' findings in the fields of sports injuries and coaching have led her to the conclusion that K-laser is her best choice for treating some of the above injuries.
Laser Therapy has been proven to bio stimulate tissue, enhance repair and growth, and decrease inflammation and pain. When it comes to pain management, K-Laser treatments are very safe and may provide dramatic results.
Positive Effects of K-Laser on the Body 
- Improves and promotes healing
- Reduces pain and spasm
- Increases joint flexibility
- Reduces symptoms of osteoarthritis
- Improves peripheral micro circulation
- Detoxifies and eliminates trigger points
- Advanced pain relief
Benefits to Patient
- Pain relief
- Inflammation reduction
- Reduced muscle spasms
- Faster recovery time
Dr. Milus' office is now located in Hands on Chiropractic:
5737 Valley Avenue D
Pleasanton, CA 94588
925/858-4375
drjmilus@gmail.com
Please contact Dr. Milus. Appts. available after April 15, 2009.
For more information about K-laser and Class-IV Laser effectiveness, please
either click here: http://summit-chiropractic.com/laser/therapeutic_results.asp
or do your own search under: Class IV laser treatment and see for yourself the exciting results that can happen with care!
Biological Effects of Class IV Laser Therapy:
1. Accelerated Tissue repair and cell growth
Photons of light from lasers penetrate deeply into tissue and accelerate cellular reproduction and growth. The laser light increases the energy available to the cell so that the cell can take on nutrients faster and get rid of waste products. As a result of exposure to laser light, the cells of tendons, ligaments and muscles are repaired faster!
2. Faster Wound Healing
Laser light stimulates fibroblast development (fibroblasts are the building blocks of collagen, and are necessary for wound healing) in damaged tissue. Collagen is the essential protein required to replace old tissue or to repair tissue injuries. As a result, LT is even effective on open wounds, scars, and burns.
3. Reduced Fibrous Tissue Formation
LT reduces the formation of scar tissue following tissue damage from cuts, scratches, burns and surgery. Scar tissue is the primary source of chronic pain.
4. Anti-Inflammation
Laser light has an anti-edemic effect as it causes vasodilation, but also because it activates the lymphatic drainage system (drains swollen areas). As a result, there is a reduction in swelling caused by bruising or inflammation.
5. Anti Pain (Analgesic)
Laser Therapy has a high beneficial effect on nerve cells which block transmitted by these cells to the brain and which decreases nerve sensitivity. Also, due to less inflammation, there is less edema and less pain. Another pain blocking mechanism involves the production of high levels pain killing chemicals (endorphins and enkephalins) released from the brain, spinal cord and adrenal gland.
6. Improved Vascular Activity
Laser light will significantly increase the formation of new capillaries in damaged tissue that speeds up the healing process, closes wounds quickly and reduces scar tissue. Also: vasodilatation. More blood vessels with increased diameter of existing vessels equals more blood flow to the area for faster healing resulting in less pain.
7. Increased Metabolic Activity
Laser therapy creates higher output of several enzymes involved in healing, greater oxygen perfusion and thus nutrient particle loads to cells. The damaged cells can regenerate faster.
8. Improved Nerve Function
Slow recovery of nerve functions in damaged can result in numbness/radicular (nerve) pain and impaired limbs. This causes weakness and dis-coordination. It predisposes athletes to injury. Laser light will speed up the process of nerve cell reconnection and increase the amplitude of action potentials travel down nerves. This serves to optimize muscle action. It also reduces nerve pain.
9. Immunoregulation
Photons are absorbed by chromophores (molecule enzymes) that react to laser light. The enzymes are activated and start producing more ATP. ATP is the major carrier of cell energy and the source for all chemical healing reactions in the cell. Long lasting pain relief occurs.
10. Trigger Points And Acupuncture Points
Laser therapy stimulates trigger points (knots) and acupuncture points on a non-invasive basis, providing musculoskeletal relief.
Laser History and how it works:
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) presented the first theory about laser that paved the way for other researchers and the development of other studies for laser. Laser Stands for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. In 1960, the first laser was demonstrated. It was Theodore Maiman, a physicist who discovered a way to emit a short lived, intense and powerful beam of red light. And in 1969, a Hungarian scientist named Endre Mester, presented publications of findings using residual or low intensity laser in medicine. They found out that this beam had a good effect on relieving pain, speeding up the healing process and producing less scar tissue.
The Science behind Laser Therapy
Researchers conducted a study to expose tissue cultures to low level lasers. In these studies, the enzymes of the cells easily absorbed the energy that was being emitted by the laser light. It was seen that the absorption promoted the production of ATP or Adenosine tri-phosphate. Since there is ATP is higher, it is surmised that this promotes healthier cells.
Therapy lasers are coherent and monochromatic (one color). They are narrow and bright light beams that have the tendency to hold their intensity until the body is able to absorb them. Light travels at a specific speed, and oscillates forward while moving up and down. Light is measured in wavelengths. The wavelength denotes the different colors of the spectrum. The movement of the light from up and down while moving forward is the frequency of the wavelength. Longer waves have lesser frequency compared with shorter waves.
There have been more than 2500 studies made about laser therapy to date. Each study is different, but it is important to note that more than 90% of these studies return a positive result for the use of laser therapy (i.e. faster healing).
How does it Work?
Laser Therapy aims to bio-stimulate cells. This therapy actually excites the cells. The laser device transmits photons. The skin absorbs these photons. This does not cause heat that damages tissues.
Once the photons reach the cells of the body, these beams promote a cascade of cellular activities. It can ignite production of enzymes, and collagen building substances to help cells function well. The higher production of cellular helps speed up the healing process while it eases pain. The laser helps increase the production of collagen, making scar tissue both stronger and more elastic.
The whole process works very much like photosynthesis in plants. The plant absorbs energy from the sun, and uses this energy to grow. The plant (body) absorbs the sunlight (laser), initiating cellular activities that speed up cell repair and cell production.
Like in photosynthesis, the correct wavelength and intensity of the light for the appropriate amount of time increases ATP production and cell membrane perturbation (agitation). This leads to permeability changes and second messenger activity resulting in functional changes such as increased synthesis, secretion, and motility changes. Red and near infrared light seem to be the most ideal wavelength. Infrared works on the mitochondria at the cell membrane.
An appropriate dose of light can improve speed and quality of acute and chronic wound healing, soft tissue healing, pain relief, immune system function and nerve cell regeneration. Low energy photon irradiation by light in the far-red to near IR spectral range with low-energy (LLLT) lasers have been found to modulate various biological processes in cell culture. This phenomenon of photo-bio-modulation has been applied clinically in the treatment of soft tissue injuries and the acceleration of wound healing. The mechanism of photo-bio-modulation by red and near -IR light at the cellular level has been ascribed to the activation mitochondrial respiratory chain components, resulting in initiation of a signaling cascade that promotes cellular proliferation and cyto-protection.
Evidence suggests that cytochrome oxide is a key photo acceptor in the far-red and near IR spectral range. Cytochrome oxidase is an integral membrane protein that contains four redox active metal centers and has a strong absorbance in the far-red and near IR spectral range, increasing mitochondrial respiration and ATP synthesis in isolated mitochondria.
Key Points to Remember:
- Chromophores are stimulated by light in the mitochondria, cell membrane and other organelles of the cell.
- Normalizes pH in the area
- Increases mRNA-DNA/RNA
- Suppression of PGE2 production (inflammation producer)
- Increases nerve conduction velocity
- Thermal fluid gradient pressure (relieves swelling/ brings in fresh fluid)
- Angiogenesis (formation of new blood vessels)
- Antibacterial
- Increased ATP production-> increase healing speed
- Increase Nitrous Oxide release (hemoglobin and endothelial…regulating blood flow)
- Causes vasodilatation (to bring in new healing nutrients, speed out waste products)
- Improves lymphatic drainage (to take away waste products)
- Reduction of spasm to normalize muscle function
- Immune augmentation (by increasing phagocyte activity)
- Reduction in pain (by increasing healing in damaged peripheral nerves)
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