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Contents

Preface viii Chapter 3 Anti-inflammatory effect 14
Acknowledgments x 3.1 Changing the flavor of the inflammatory
Abbreviations xii soup 14
Some of what you will see xiv 3.1.1 Vasoactive amines 15
Introduction: light as a healing tool xv 3.1.2 Acute phase proteins and
plasmatic proteases 15
3.1.3 Lipid mediators 16
Part 1 Light’s actions in the body 3.1.4 Cytokines 16
3.1.5 Molecule of the year and more 18
Chapter 1 Light is just the catalyst 3 3.2 The anti-inflammatory effect of laser
1.1 Electromagnetic radiation 3 therapy on different cells, tissues, and
1.2 Absorbing light 4 conditions 19
1.3 Light’s bio-targets 5 Summary from a different perspective 21
1.4 Absorption leads to … 6
1.4.1 Heat 6 Chapter 4 Analgesic effect 22
1.4.2 Changing shape 7 4.1 How can laser therapy provide analgesia? 23
1.4.3 Physical chemistry 7 4.2 Don’t forget pain assessment 24
1.4.4 Shapeshifting examples 7 4.3 Analgesia in different conditions: clinical
1.5 Light’s targets within the cell 8 studies 26
1.5.1 Cytochrome C 8 Summary from a different perspective 28
1.5.2 Nitric oxide: a not-so-secondary
effect 9 Chapter 5 Tissue healing 29
Summary from a different perspective 9 5.1 Wound healing 29
5.2 Healing of tendons and ligaments 32
Chapter 2 Blood and light 10 5.3 Muscle healing 33
2.1 Circulation basics 10 5.4 Bone healing 34
2.2 Heat … again 10 5.5 Nerve healing and function 34
2.3 Push vs. pull 11 5.6 Treating contaminated and infected
2.4 Vasodilation: nitric oxide rearing its tissues 35
head again 11 Summary from a different perspective 39
2.5 Oxygenation 12
Summary from a different perspective 13

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