What We Treat - Pain and Inflammation

Discover the natural, painless efficacy of the best at-home red light therapy to treat Peripheral Neuropathy. By utilising specific doses and wavelengths of either red or infrared laser light, it modulates pain signals, enhances healing and repair through improved blood flow and nitric oxide release, stimulates nerve growth, and provides neuroprotective benefits. Peripheral neuropathy commonly affects hands, feet, sciatic nerve, neck, and shoulder, including conditions like sciatica, carpal tunnel syndrome, and neck radiculopathy.

Arthritis, characterised by joint inflammation, occurs more frequently with age, but can also significantly impact younger individuals. The condition encompasses various types, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, osteoarthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and septic arthritis.  

So how can light therapy help? Light therapy has been extensively studied and proven beneficial for arthritis conditions. By reducing pain and inflammation, it promotes healing and tissue repair. When specific wavelengths of red or infrared light are applied to the body, the cell's mitochondria are stimulated to generate more energy (ATP), facilitating healing, growth and repair. Additionally, light therapy triggers the release of nitric oxide, improving blood flow, as well as cAMP, a potent anti-inflammatory agent, and reactive oxygen species (ROS), which mitigates oxidative stress. These mechanisms enable the natural healing and repair of joints when light therapy is applied.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder characterised by widespread body pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and cognitive and mood issues. It is caused by abnormal pain processing in the brain and spinal cord, where typically non-painful sensations are interpreted as painful. This condition, also known as "centralised" pain, affects different areas of the body and can vary from day to day. For example, individuals with Fibromyalgia may experience leg, foot, knee, and hip pain, often described as throbbing, shooting, achy, or burning sensations. They may also feel tightness, tenderness, numbness, tingling, or weakness in muscles, along with reduced mobility or a dull aching sensation. While Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition, flare-ups can occur, resulting in temporary increases in symptoms. During acute flare-ups, infrared laser therapy is a popular treatment option due to its painless nature. Our SYMBYX devices are the only approved lasers for reducing the symptoms of Fibromyalgia.

Swelling occurs when excessive fluid accumulates in the body due to inflammation or fluid retention. Light therapy offers a natural, painless approach that works with the body's healing processes to decrease pain, promote tissue repair and expedite healing, providing faster relief from swelling.

It does this via four processes: 

1. Energises the cell’s mitochondria to produce more ATP. This is used by the cell for important processes such as healing, growth, repair and proliferation. 
2. Increases nitric oxide to improve blood flow, circulation and drainage. 
3. Releases reactive oxygen species (ROS) to reduce oxidative stress and encourage repair processes. 
4. Releases cAMP, a natural anti-inflammatory that the body uses to help regulate its own inflammation processes. 

On top of this, our therapies have been shown to actually improve muscle and tendon strength, particularly when used in combination with exercise, also protecting against future injury.

SYMBYX is at the forefront of groundbreaking research exploring the potential of light therapy in reducing symptoms of IBD and IBS. While our previous studies have centred around the effectiveness of gut-brain connection light therapy for Parkinson's, we anticipate similar positive outcomes for IBS/IBD using a comparable treatment approach.