The most common location of horse-riding-related injuries is the upper extremity (24% to 61%) with injuries to the lower extremity second in frequency (36% to 40%). Horseback riding injuries often occur to the arms as riders try to break a fall. These injuries include bruises, sprains and strains.
Modified muscle use or injury can produce a stereotypic inflammatory response in which neutrophils rapidly invade and are followed by macrophages. This inflammatory response coincides with muscle repair, regeneration, and growth involving activation and proliferation of satellite cells and followed by their terminal differentiation. New evidence also shows that muscle cells can release positive and negative regulators of inflammatory cell invasion, and thereby play an active role in modulating the inflammatory process.
The net result in clinical studies suggests increased strength of tissue repair and minimal scarring. In both soft tissue and connective tissue injuries, light therapy can increase the final tensile strength of the healed tissue. By increasing the amount of collagen production/synthesis and by increasing the intra and inter-molecular hydrogen bonding in the collagen molecules, red & infrared light therapy contributes to improved tensile strength. The preceding effects combine to achieve an accelerated healing rate. The time from onset of injury to mature healed wound is reduced.
Some of the benefits of using the Photizo Sport for strains incurred while horse-riding include:
- Reduces inflammation
- Increases circulation
- Boosts endorphin production
- Blocks pain transmitting chemicals
- Eases pain
- Non-invasive
- Pain-free
- Simple to operate
