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Sports Medicine

Elite athletes, professional bodybuilders, and just weekend warriors benefit from laser treatment. Countless professional athletic teams and athletes are adding this technology as an integral part of their strategy for success. While the most common application of lasers is in rehabilitation process following an injury or surgical procedure, more and more elite athletes include laser treatment as part of an integrated training regimen that helps them to recover between events, condition for upcoming competitions, and even as a preventive measure against potential injuries.

Recovery

In their quest for top performance elite athletes and coaches alike look for any advantage or edge that technology may provide. Recently, the importance of the rate and quality of recovery attracted the attention of the sports medicine science as a critical performance enhancing tool for high-level training and competition. 

High-power laser treatment is a promising recovery intervention which provides the following benefits:
  •    Decrease post-exercise levels of blood lactate, creatine kinase, and C-reactive protein
  •    Removes metabolic waste products
  •    Prevents muscle damage (creatine kinase-CK)
  •    Reduces the delayed onset muscle soreness
  •    Accelerates muscle recovery

Injury management and rehabilitation

Unfortunately, injuries do happen in sports. The role of rehabilitation is to bring the athlete back quickly and in the optimal conditions. Laser therapy is rapidly gaining momentum as a fast, and efficient way to do just that.
  •    There is good evidence that the laser has a beneficial effect on decreasing inflammation
  •    Aids in lymphatic drainage
  •    Speeds up wound healing and improves the quality of repair in tendon and ligament injuries
  •    Accelerated tissue regeneration
  •    There is also correlation between high CK level and injury, cramps, and fatigue.

Conditioning

There are several reasons why incorporating laser therapy into the regular training program of elite athletes and pay dividends:
  
  •    Significantly increases muscle endurance
  •    Increases VO2 max
  •    Muscular pre-conditioning
  •    Boosts ATP production in the cells, which translates in more energey and better sports performance. performance.

The Eclipse® – 980 and Eclipse® – IV from OmniLase® are  state-of-the-art therapeutic laser systems. Their unmatched uniformity of illumination in the treated area ensures the high efficacy of procedures and ultimate comfort for patients.