Acute pain following surgery is a predictable, physiological response to tissue damage. Patients are prepared for some degree of pain or discomfort but expect that it will pass. However, up to one third of patients undergoing common surgical procedures report persistent or intermittent pain of varying severity at one year postoperatively (1).
Doctors usually define chronic pain as pain that lasts for three to six months or more. Chronic pain is difficult and costly to treat, with wider costs associated with increased health service use as well as reduced quality of life and economic productivity. The burden of disease from chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) is potentially enormous if we consider the volume of surgical procedures performed annually.
Light therapy helps to provide relief for post-surgical chronic pain by providing increased blood flow into the area being treated to ensure that any waste is quickly removed from the area.
How will light therapy help provide relief from chronic pain?
Photizo Pain Relief light therapy alleviates chronic pain and inflammation and will help to:
- Reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines and increase anti-inflammatory cytokines
- Reduce inflammation by modulating inflammatory cells
- Reduce oxidative stress
- Improve drainage of the lymphatic vessels
- Increase quality sleep.
