I get a lot of customers asking about laser healing. I know on SKYlasers' website, we have articles about the use of our lasers in acupuncture, chiropractics, and physical therapy. In acupuncture, an Infrared laser is focused on a pressure point and is held in place from several seconds to minutes. IR radation is allowed to penetrate the epidermal layers exciting the pressure point below. The benefit of such treatment is acupuncture without needles (no open wounds). In chiropractics and physical therapy, studies have shown IR radiation to increase healing times for skin and muscle damage. 

Every so often, news and studies appear proving the benefits of using lasers in medical procedures:

"Researchers at Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel) are taking yet another space-age Star Trek gadget from fiction to fact. Besides the modern cell phone "communicator" and demonstration of the "laser scalpel," the Star Trek "dermal regenerator" is now a reality using lasers to both close and heal tissue wounds.

In a recent clinical trial of 10 patients who underwent laparascopic cholecystectomy (surgical removal of the gallbladder), traditional sutures were applied at the end of the procedure to two of four abdominal incisions that had been made in each of the patients. The remaining two incisions were laser-soldered using human albumin (a protein in human blood) solder. Analysis of the wounds by the researchers over a three-month period showed that the 20 laser soldered wounds healed better with less scarring than the sutured wounds (see figure)."

An incision in the skin of the abdomen closed using traditional sutures (a) and laser soldered using human albumin (b) is compared two days after surgery. Thirty days after surgery, the sutured scar (c) is much larger and more noticeable than the laser soldered scar (d). (Courtesy of Tel-Aviv University)

You can find the rest of the article here:

http://www.optoiq.com/index/photonics-technologies-applications/lfw-display/lfw-article-display/4722295462/articles/optoiq2/photonics-technologies/applications-__markets/science-__research/life-sciences/2010/5/biophotonics_-not.html

I have google alerts setup for the keyword "lasers" which sends me emails when anything laser related pops up on the internet. Interestingly enough, this news bit is about a company we've worked with before, Raytheon. Several months back, we had shipped several lasers to them for testing in a new laser defense prototype. I'm not sure how the laser was implemented as this information is probably highly classified. Check out Raytheon's newest laser defense system:

Think "Star Wars" at sea.

The Navy and Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems have adapted Raytheon's Phalanx ship-defense system - sometimes nicknamed R2-D2 - to fire a laser at enemy aircraft.

Last week the Navy's Laser Weapon System, known as LaWS, successfully tracked and destroyed a "threat representative" unmanned aircraft at San Nicholas Island, off the California coast near Los Angeles.

Ok, I bet you are wondering what people actually do with our high power laser pointers. Besides all the fun things you can burn with our lasers, most of our laser pointers are actually purchased by professionals. Not just professors and amateur astronomers, but medical doctors using them for low level laser therapy or LLLT for short. It has been medically proven that a dose of laser light on sore muscles will increase the speed of healing. No wonder lasers are now popularly used in sports medicine. What is more interesting, however, is that lasers can also be used in acupuncture!

But not just any acupuncture. Oh, no. That would be too mundane, too boring, too...pedestrian. Needles? Stuck into the skin? Physically? How primitive! There might even be a tiny drop of blood! We can't have that! No, I'm a 21st century kind of guy, and I need a 21st century form of woo. It needs to be high tech woo of the finest caliber. Just like Dr. Evil, I want my frikkin' sharks to have frikkin' laser beams.

That's right: Laser acupuncture! Fellow woo-traveler of Mike Adams Dave Gabriele shows me the way right there on NaturalNews.com:

The July 2008 issue of Pain, a prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal published by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), featured a German study conducted by eight pediatric doctors and clinicians. The researchers attempted to determine whether or not laser acupuncture would prove effective in relieving the symptoms of chronic headaches in 43 children.

Oh my! Science! (I can't help but think of Magnus Pyke in Thomas Dolby's video for the song She Blinded Me With Science popping up periodically to shout "Science!" Or maybe, "Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You're beautiful!") Let's see what Gabriele has to say about it:

A good buddy of mine just emailed me this story that was posted on forbes.com several weeks ago. The title of the story is "How Lasers Will Change the World". On many levels, I think lasers have already revolutionized how we live and have brought us many conveniences. For example, lasers can be found in your everyday DVD players which bring us hours upon hours of entertainment at home. The use of lasers is sometimes, I think, under-estimated. Lasers kind of hide in everyday appliances (printers, copiers, scanners, etc). We know that laser pointers, especially our laser pointer, have helped thousands of astronomers worldwide. Anyway, below is the story:

It can be hard for science to live up to the imaginations of science-fiction writers. There aren't many people zipping around on jet packs, and there's no human outpost on Mars. At least, not yet.

Lasers are a different story. First demonstrated 50 years ago, they are involved in building every car and airplane, in delivering every telephone call and e-mail. They sequence DNA, and they fix people's eyesight. They help audiences follow tedious PowerPoint presentations, and they make heavy metal rock shows wicked awesome.

It's been a month since our last post and let me tell you, we've been BUSY! For the past several months, we've completely updated our laser pointers and portable lasers to the 2010 models. We cleared our factory of all old parts and literally tore the place up to implement the new product lines. Our technicians have been pulling out their hair every day designing and building the lasers making sure they are the most advanced and stable lasers in the market today.

After finalizing all the models, the internet staff have been working around the clock updating the website with the newest information and specifications. Our goal here is to write product desciptions that tell the truth giving our customers a very detailed description of our lasers. Many parts of our website have been rewritten and will comtinue to be updated for the next several months. Writing general copy is easy, writing good copy takes time and patience. You will also find brand new product pictures. For an example of our updated product pages, please check out:

http://www.skylasers.com/green-laser-pointers.html

http://www.skylasers.com/green-portable-lasers.html

We have shipped out our first round of laser pointers and portable lasers for reviewers to try. This coming month, you'll see expert gadget reviewers from large blogs and websites write about SKYlasers products. Many of the reviews we have are of our old models, lets see what the experts have to say about our new 2010 laser models!

While these expert reviews have not been written yet, we have had many customer feedback of our products. The new laser pointers have been said to be "the most sturdy laser pointer" in the market today. Many of our customers have said that they "have never seen such well built laser" that offer "stable, bright laser beams". Every time we get an email giving us positive feedback, it gives us strength to make our lasers even better in the next update. Thank you!