Advice of treatment please tom

Hi Jayden,

In regard to low level injuries the laser is an excellent tool as it not only speeds healing, but also provides pain relief. Having said that because the laser, even a cluster unit, still only covers a relatively small area with injuries such as muscle strain, rubbing the area with iodised oil after each laser treatment is certainly going to improve recovery.

However the effective use of a laser treatment unit depends on several parameters that need to be known and taken into account. Namely the output of a laser is measured in Joules, and generally for a suitable healing response around 6 Joules of energy needs to be absorbed by the tissue being treated in each daily treatment.

So the output of the laser is critical as the higher the output of each laser diode the shorter the treatment time.

The next item that should be taken into consideration is the laser wavelength as specific wavelengths have a better penetrating ability but can create heat and therefore are designed to switch on and off rapidly which alters the Joule output, and then off course how cleanly is the laser energy going into the actual muscle tissue as a layer of hair can certainly interfere with that.

In the end it’s probably best to simply use a specific laser injury treatment device to whatever the manufacturer has recommended for that individual device and hope that they have done the research and got it right, and ensuring the laser diodes are as close as possible in contact with the skin.

Magnetic field units, what can I say, because personally I think it’s a very bad idea to radiate the dogs whole body in one of those boxes as pulsed magnetic field has a very detrimental effect on the dogs kidneys causing severe electrolytes imbalances in the body.

When these units first became popular a lot of years ago, I had the opportunity to conduct various experiments and radiating the whole body of several racing greyhounds caused increased low level cramping and a noticeable reduction in performances, and I certainly would not recommend doing so.

In my honest opinion pulsed magnetic field treatment units are great if used to speed up the healing of bone fractures. But then only by using a coil pad just over the actual injury site.

Cheers,
Tom