CrossFit is recognised as one of the fastest growing high-intensity functional training modes in the world. It’s also one of the toughest on your body. By combining calisthenics, high-intensity interval training, plyometrics, power-lifting, and more, CrossFit challenges participants in ways they never experienced before.
Although when you first start out you may experience what is known as CrossFit soreness, there is a big difference between muscles that are being thoroughly worked for the first time versus an injury.
The Photizo Sport LED device’s red and infrared light therapy will help you to reduce the pain associated with non-chronic CrossFit-related injuries such as:
- Achilles tendonitis
- Back strain
- Knee pain
- Elbow injuries
- Shoulder injuries.
How will light therapy help treat non-chronic pain related to CrossFit injuries?
Red light therapy works by increasing blood flow and stimulating cell regeneration. Essentially, these treatments help the mitochondria in muscular cells complete their respiration cycle more efficiently, which results in less muscle fatigue. Improving the mitochondrial respiration cycle leads to better activation and formation of the muscle stem cells that eventually develop into healthy muscle tissue. This means that athletes who use light therapy on their muscles can experience long-lasting healthy muscle tissue as a result.
NASA conducted research throughout the 2000s indicating that the light stimulated energy production within cells, effectively providing enough fuel to boost tissue regeneration and accelerate the healing process.
