Discover the Red Light Therapy Bed, a safe and effective treatment for lymphedema. It promotes blood circulation, alleviates symptoms, reduces infection risk, and enhances patients' quality of life.
Lymphedema is a common but often overlooked disease that often occurs in people who have undergone cancer treatment, especially breast cancer and lymphoma patients. As the limbs swell, patients' daily activities may be severely restricted, resulting in a decrease in quality of life. In recent years, red light therapy has attracted more and more patients' attention as a non-invasive and painless treatment method.
The basic principles of red light therapy for treating lymphedema:
Red light therapy uses low-energy red light, usually between 600-900 nanometers, to stimulate mitochondria in cells, thereby promoting cell repair, accelerating blood circulation, and reducing inflammation. It has been widely used in skin care, sports recovery, and adjuvant treatment of various chronic diseases.
Red light therapy mainly works through the three biological effects of far infrared rays: radiation effect, resonance effect, and thermal effect.
Radiation effect and resonance effect can promote microcirculation and collateral lymphatic return, thereby relieving the swelling and heaviness caused by lymphedema.
Thermal effect can dilate blood vessels in the skin of the affected limb, promote heavy sweating, return fluid in the local tissue gap to the blood, and improve lymphatic circulation.
- Rlt promotes blood circulation and lymphatic return
-Thermal effect
The thermal effect of far infrared rays can dilate blood vessels and lymphatic vessels, increase blood flow and lymph flow, and thus promote the reabsorption of tissue fluid.
The thermal effect can also activate Langerhans cells and macrophages. These cells can hydrolyze excess protein, reduce colloidal osmotic pressure, and further promote the return of interstitial fluid to the circulatory system.
-Radiation effect and resonance effect
The radiation effect and resonance effect can promote the oscillation of free ions, leading to the denaturation of macromolecules such as proteins, and increasing the absorption of proteins in tissues.
These effects help improve lymphatic circulation, reduce the accumulation of tissue fluid, and thus relieve lymphedema.
- Rlt improves microcirculation
- Local hyperthermia
Local hyperthermia can improve microcirculation, reduce chronic inflammation, and promote tissue repair.
By dilating blood vessels and lymphatic vessels, local hyperthermia can increase the flow of blood and lymph, reduce the colloidal osmotic pressure in tissue fluid, and accelerate the return of tissue fluid.
- Enhanced immune function
Activated macrophages and endothelial cells can enhance immune function, promote microcirculation, and reduce inflammatory responses, thereby helping to relieve lymphedema.
- Rlt can alleviate the clinical symptoms of lymphatic patients
-Pain relief
Far infrared therapy can significantly reduce the pain of patients with lymphedema, which may be related to its role in promoting blood circulation and lymphatic return.
-Tightness and heaviness
After receiving red light therapy, patients' tightness and heaviness are significantly reduced, and the improvement of these symptoms helps to improve the quality of life of patients.
-Skin hardness
Far infrared therapy can soften and loosen the fibrous tissue of the affected limb, reduce the hardness of the skin, and thus improve the patient's limb function.
- Red light therapy can reduce the risk of infection
- Erysipelas Attacks
Far infrared therapy can significantly reduce the frequency and severity of erysipelas attacks. This is because it can enhance the body's nonspecific immune function and improve resistance.
- Local inflammation
By improving local microcirculation and promoting lymphatic return, red light therapy can effectively control the onset of local skin lymphangitis and reduce the risk of secondary systemic infection.
- Improve tissue pathological status
-Fibrosis
Far infrared therapy can reduce the degree of fibrosis in lymphedema tissue and reduce collagen fiber bundles in the tissue, thereby improving the pathological state of the tissue.
-Immune disorders
Studies have shown that red light therapy can regulate the immune function of patients with chronic lymphedema. Red light therapy can increase CD4 T cells and CD4/CD8 ratios, and decrease HLA-DR and activated T suppressor/killer cells (CD8 HLA-DR), indicating that red light therapy can improve the disordered state of the immune system.
- Red light therapy improves patients’ quality of life
-Daily Activities
After receiving red light therapy, patients' daily activities were significantly improved, and they were able to carry out their daily lives and work better.
-Functional Recovery
Red light therapy can promote the functional recovery of the affected limbs, improve the patient's limb mobility and overall functional status.
- Red light therapy can reduce lymphatic fluid accumulation
-Edema circumference
A study on upper limb lymphedema after breast cancer surgery showed that after 7 days of red light therapy, the circumference of upper limb lymphedema in the observation group was significantly smaller than that in the control group.
-Subcutaneous effusion
Red light therapy can reduce the amount of subcutaneous effusion and promote the discharge of effusion, thereby reducing the degree of edema.
Is Red Light Therapy Safe?
-Oncology Safety
Through the study of patients with postoperative lymphedema after gynecological cancer, it was found that red light therapy did not induce tumor recurrence or systemic metastasis, and no new pathological manifestations or lymphadenopathy were found in the 1-year follow-up.
Does red light therapy have adverse reactions?
In clinical applications, red light therapy is relatively safe, no obvious adverse reactions occur, and patients have good tolerance to the treatment.
In summary, red light therapy can effectively promote blood circulation and lymphatic return, alleviate clinical symptoms, reduce the risk of infection, improve tissue pathological conditions, and improve patients' quality of life through various biological effects, and is safe in most cases. These effects make red light therapy one of the important means of treating lymphedema.
