Acute Injury

"Can I play next week?"
- Fractured clavicle

Injuries are either acute or due to overuse. Recognizing the mechanism of injury and managing your recovery can prevent your acute injury from becoming chronic. It requires a balance between expectations and best clinical practices. Although laser therapy has been shown to reduce pain, inflammation and speeds up healing, your injury requires the proper time to heal for a safe return to physical activity and play.1,2 Easing you back into your activities is optimized with an understanding of your injury, treatment and recovery. Cox® Technic and laser therapy (such as with Theralase®) has been shown to reduce knee pain.3,4

References

  1. Marques L, Holgado LA, Francischone LA, Ximenez JP, Okamoto R, Kinoshita A. New LLLT protocol to speed up the bone healing process-histometric and immunohistochemical analysis in rat calvarial bone defect. Lasers Med Sci. 2015 May;30(4):1225-30. doi: 10.1007/s10103-014-1580-x. Epub 2014 Apr 23.
  2. Kuffler, Damien. Photobiomodulation in promoting wound healing: A review. Regenerative medicine. (2015)11. 10.2217/rme.15.82.
  3. Albano L. The innovative application of Cox® Flexion Distraction Decompression of the knee: a retrospective case series. J Can Chiro Assoc. 2017 Aug;61(2):153-161.
  4. Marquina N, Dumoulin-White R, Mandel A, Lilge L. Laser therapy applications for osteoarthritis and chronic joint pain – A randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial. Photon Lasers Med 2012; 1(4): 299–307DOI 10.1515/plm-2012-0030