Treatment of Chronic Rheumatoid Arthritis
LaserWorld Guest Editorial, 5 1999.
by Low Power Laser(1) Kazuyoshi Zenba,, the president of Isehara Clinical
Reserch Institute
Chronic Rheumatoid Arthritis is commonly called Rheumatism. Most of patients
are middle-aged women but young women and men are not immune to this disease.
The cause of this illness is not elucidated at present. However, the most likely
theory is that the immune disorder caused by outside influences starts
Rheumatoid Arthritis of a patient. The stressful stimuli or the hormone
imbalance is also considered to be one of causes of the illness. Rheumatoid
Arthritis causes inflamation mainly at joints of body and gradually destroy
them. As symptoms of this illness, the morning stiffness of joints, pains at
joints and sometime small balls like beans are found at elbows and knees of
patients. Joints of patients are deformed gradually.
The low power laser irradiation is very effective to the treatment of Chronic
Rheumatoid Arthritis. It can restraint the progress of the illness and also
mitigates inflammation, pains or stiffness. The mechanism of treatment is
considered to be the anti-inflammation effect of low power laser and the
improvement of immunity by low power laser. The improvement of blood circulation
before and after the irradiation of low power laser is clearly confirmed by
thermography. If the stage of Rheumatism of a patient is beforeU, +value of a
Rheumatism test can be expected to improve to} or - after the repetition of
low power laser irradiation.
The earlier treatment seems to bring about the better result.
The method of laser irradiation in our clinic is as follows.
- Low power laser: Semiconductor laser, 780nm,10mW
- Irradiation time:10-30 seconds/point
- Total irradiation time:2-3 minutes/diseased part
- Interval of treatment:2-3 times/week
- Judgment of treatment:2-3 months
According to our experience, above said mild laser of 10mW compared with
strong lasers such as 60 or 100mW is said to be much more suitable for the
treatment of Rheumatism patients. As Rheumatism patients are very sensitive to
any stimulations, a stronger laser is feared to cause negative results such as
the increase of pains etc..
Another important factor to overcome this illness is the mental strength of
patients. Patience is required in order to continue the laser therapy.
We would like to introduce a voice of patient who recovered from Rheumatism by
the help of laser therapy in our clinic.
"An adverse effect of medicine-moon face was improved by the laser
therapy" female,
48 years olds
My Rheuatism started 4 years ago and my face was deformed as to look like the
moon while taking medicines prescribed by a hospital. Not only the moon face, my
internal organs were also damaged and I was mentally deranged. After looking for
better treatments, one of my friends introduced me the low power laser therapy.
After the treatment of one month, the pain of my ankle disappeared and the moon
face was recovered after 2 months irradiation of low power laser. My husband
delighted very much saying I was restored to life by the help of the laser light
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