Why is there so much confusion and contradiction over Light Therapy? Part IV

The literature available on light therapy is not only confusing but contradictory. (Basford, 1993)

First let me assure you that the confusion is not accidental but very strategically laid out with the intent of keeping the public ignorant of the truth. Why? Because it is profitable.

I feel the need at this point in the series to discuss the darker side of light therapy. It is very unfortunate that we have so many individuals that feel the need to deceive so many others to make a profit. However the term “Let the buyer beware” was coined for a reason. So how do you propagate such confusion? This is easy, just tell a lot of lies and stick to them. To rebut all the lies would take forever as there are so many. So this series of articles will attempt to disclose the truth and let the lies revile themselves.

But first I want to comment on how and why these lies are being spread:

1. The first way to deceive someone is in the terminology you use such as “Light Therapy”. Technically light therapy could be anything from laying in the sun to picking out a color for your room to lighting a match in a dark place or even some surgical laser procedures. By using such a broad term and referring to it as a specific term is a lie in itself. It would be like saying ball instead of defining what type of ball such as bowling ball or football etc. Because even though all Ping-Pong balls are balls, not all balls are used to play Ping-Pong. They are not interchangeable any more than different forms of light therapy are interchangeable.

2. The next way to deceive someone is to use your own definitions to common words. Without standards of definitions then words are meaningless. This is why we have dictionaries, so we know exactly what words mean. In light therapy, different manufactures make up definitions to words to suit their own needs. Unfortunately most people are not familiar with words utilized in light therapy so they don’t know when they are being lied to. However, when they hear 3 different manufactures use three different definitions to the same word or phrase, then they become confused and are not sure who or what to believe. With each article we will either specifically define each term in the article or begin the article with a list of definitions for all terms utilized in that article.

3. The next way to deceive someone is to make up words that don’t even exist and then make up a definition for it that also does not exist. As ridiculous as this sounds it occurs much more than you think. Everything from the names they use for their units to what they say their units are doing to the body. For example: “Near Infrared” This is a term that many manufactures use to describe the wavelength that their light therapy units utilize. Especially when someone asks about the potential adverse reactions of Infrared. According to the normal English language the term near infrared should mean a wavelength that is somewhere near infrared but not infrared. A wavelength just above or below the infrared wavelengths. But that is not the case here. They define a Near Infrared wavelength as an infrared wavelength. It is just an infrared wavelength that is closer to the red wavelengths than other infrared wavelengths. To me this is Near Insanity but since few people, even the sales people, know what the red or the infrared wavelengths are no one knows the difference or can call them on their ignorance or deceptions.

4. Another way of deceiving someone is when you quote research that was performed by different types of therapy units which have nothing to do with your therapy system. This logic would be like taking the therapeutic results from brain surgery and claiming the same results for removing a wart. Technically they are both surgical procedures, so they should have the same therapeutic benefits, right? Again this is near insanity but if you don’t call them on it no one knows the difference.

5. And finally the best way to deceive someone or everyone is with the wonderful internet. Anyone can get on the internet and say anything they want and take no responsibility for their statements. Unfortunately most people have a tendency to believe everything that is on the internet like it has been proven and documented. When in truth, much of what is on the internet is just a way of spreading the above lies. To make it even worse, many articles you find on the internet are from information that is found on the internet that was not based on facts but just someone else’s ideas. So you can see how this can get out of hand very quickly and if you are not aware of the proper research you can become misinformed or deceived very quickly.

So how do you protect yourself from the lies and know what to believe. Fortunately most lies are simple to spot if you are looking for them. Unfortunately most people are trusting and are not looking for the lies so they are easily deceived and confused by those that are trying to do so.

The facts about Light Therapy are not confusing, simple enough for the least educated individuals to fully understand, and it is all logical. These facts have been well documented for over 60 years with tens of thousands of research studies and reports. Furthermore all the terms and properties have been closely defined either in texts or standard medical dictionaries.

Unfortunately this information and these definitions are not readily found because again it profits few manufactures to let the truth be known. Even worse, most manufactures don’t even know the truth themselves as they are just manufactures of electronic equipment, not medical researchers, scientists, or doctors.

This series of articles will try to reveal as much truth as possible. However, there are many claims that are being promoted about laser therapy that are true. But what they don’t say is if this effect is actually a good thing or a bad thing or how it effects the body and the overall health of the patient. I have always been a firm believer that quality research statistics never lie. However, the statisticians that evaluate the statistics seldom get it right. The first reason for this is that the organization that is funding the research has a preference to the outcome. True science dictates that everyone involved in the research be impartial. Once this no longer exists then the research is automatically corrupted. The other is that the statisticians drawing the conclusions don’t know if the results they got were bad or good they just stated the facts. Which leaves the organization funding the research to determine if it was a good or bad result. Either way, the statisticians of the funding organization are left with the final conclusions which leads to corrupted results. However, the good news is that most of this research is published in detail somewhere. So if you know where to find it, and how to read it the truth is readily available.

I will give you one personal example. I had the opportunity to have a specific scientific study run on our first model laser. The study was performed at a prestigious university following strict scientific protocols. This was arranged through a friend of a friend as you can’t just walk in and have these kind of studies performed. They performed a series of tests on live cells and I was not told exactly what they did but the end result was determined by the amount of serotonin that the cell produce. When the results came back they said our laser failed the tests as the end results showed no production of serotonin. They said that all of the infrared lasers were successful in this test so they concluded that the infrared lasers had a significantly stronger and better stimulus on the cells than our laser. I did not question the results but I did ask a few more questions before I accepted the conclusion. I asked the researcher what would cause a cell to produce serotonin. They quickly responded with any number of cellular stresses. So even though I totally agreed with the results of the test, my conclusion was totally opposite to theirs. I concluded that our Low Level 635nm laser, a natural form of energy medicine, did not stress the cells which was documented by the test since it did not cause the cells to produce serotonin. I also concluded that the infrared lasers did stress the cells based on the test results that documented the production of serotonin. To me this was a very positive result. It documented that an infrared laser produces a pharmacological (toxic) dose of therapy where our low level 635nm laser provided a physiological (nontoxic) dose of therapy.

The object of this material is that even though you have the results of a quality research study you can still be deceived if you are not fully aware of all the parameters of the study or what all the results actually mean for the health of your patients.

Next Article: http://www.coldlasertherapeutics.com/frequency-therapy-part-v/

All articles provided by Dr Gerry Graham and LED Healing Light.