What Are the Foot Pain Types Treated By Low-Level Laser Therapy

by Jill Hunter Podiatry Paediatrics

Foot pains have always been painstakingly ardent at creating painful life, preventing you from moving fast with confidence. Being sidelined by foot pains gradually exhausts you of your energy, causing you to be hesitant regarding the invasive procedures. Similar to every other issue, low-level laser therapy is the ideal treatment for healing the damaged tissues to earn long–term results.

Podiatrists commence low-level laser therapy for the patient at their podiatry clinic in Perth to reduce chronic foot pains. Low-level laser therapy generates a cold laser beam that further sends our harmless photons into the tissue, thereby stimulating a photochemical interaction between the photons and the cells. With the cold laser entering the tissue, it causes alterations to the cell membrane permeability, thereby allowing the photons at interacting and stimulating the cell's mitochondria. The interactions increase cellular activity, which further increases the tissue healing rates with the aid of reduced pains and inflammations.

Low-Level Laser Therapy is ideal for the patients suffering from these acute and chronic feet pain conditions –

1. Plantar Fasciitis
Stabbing pain to the feet in the morning makes the first step much more difficult. The reason is you are suffering from plantar fasciitis, that is there is inflammation in your plantar fascia. The strong connective tissue running along the foot's bottom while supplying critical support to arches suffers from stress in fair amounts while fulfilling its duties. These stresses add up and lead to tiny tears and inflammation.

Through low-level laser therapy, podiatrists can deliver the needed light energy to the plantar fascia for stimulating the healing process in the tendons and ligaments making up the strong tissue band. The laser energy functions at reducing inflammation and relieving pains, thereby giving the most needed opportunity to the body for properly healing through tissue regeneration.

2. Arthritis
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease causing cartilage breakdown in joints. In this regard, low-level laser therapy proves to be the right solution. Since osteoarthritis has no cure, low-level laser therapy aims at stemming the onset and progression of the disease by lessening the inflammation arthritis causes, thereby bringing down the pain. By applying low-level laser therapy, low-level light energy is inserted into the damaged tissues for encouraging healing, regeneration and repairs.

3. Achilles Tendinitis
The Achilles tendon runs from the calf muscle to the heel, and it is the largest tendon in the body. Its main role in the function of the foot is allowing it to walk, run, and jump. Similar to the other connective tissue in the body, if the excessive strain is placed on this tendon or else this tendon undergoes repeated stress, then it will surely develop tiny tears that further lead to pains and inflammations. Achilles tendinitis is often common among runners and more athletes who have to place a greater workload on the tissues.

In case, you are suffering from throbbing and dull pain of Achilles Tendinitis, then low-level laser therapy will help a lot to accelerate healing, reduce inflammation and reduce pain. This therapy even increases circulation to the Achilles tendon and aids in speeding up the healing process and tissue regeneration.

4. Sports Injuries
Sports injuries like sprains can be well treated by applying low-level laser therapy – you can well get back to your game at the earliest. It might be your ankle or toe, but the painless and non-invasive low-level laser therapy will propel healing in injury by delivering specific red as well as near-infrared wavelengths of laser lights for inducing a photochemical reaction along with a therapeutic effect.

Hindrances in life cannot be counted and foot pains are one of them that forces you to slow down and suffer the painful sensations. But give it a thought. Why continue living in pain, when treatment indeed exists? Follow the podiatrists' advice and take low-level laser therapy as they schedule – within that time you shall find your confidence has regained.