Knee Pain Relief That Works FastPosted by Steffan Devin on January 18th, 2020 I recently started doing research for an article Migraine Care Review on beneficial use of infrared light therapy for pain management. Per the usual approach, I started by looking for studies to validate that it worked or did not work. After about three hours of sifting through abstracts on studies associated with infrared, laser, bright, red, blue and a combination of red and blue light therapies for pain management, I came to several conclusions: Most of the unsubstantiated data found, suggests that it works for pain management in humans. There are few concise studies associated with humans, that I could find, that would validate the benefit of light therapy for pain management (they may be out there and I was looking in the wrong directories or journals). There has been some contractor research completed by NASA for using light therapy in space for pain management. It was tough to find substantiated data on the results of those studies. You do get the impression by reading the periphery of the NASA studies that light therapy is used in space (I would expect the space station) on humans with success.The FDA has approved sale of specific light therapy apparatus for pain management. Those approvals seem to be based on research conducted by the manufacturer, or agent of the manufacturer, for specific light spectrums for specific applications, e.g. shoulder pain. Like it? Share it! More by this author |