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While many head to the tanning booth to soak up vitamin D, a local woman encourages others to head for her booth at the Sports Academy for light therapy under red, blue and near-infrared LED lights.
Advanced light therapy coach Marta DeBerard became interested in light therapy in 2011, when she was looking for a proactive, alternative solution to help her father’s leg heal faster from a blood clot. He was in his 70s and on a blood thinner for the clot, and had an oozing sore in his leg. That’s when she remembered a friend telling her about light therapy.
“We were just really concerned about his leg and his ability to heal up from that and not get another infection, and he wanted to ski again, and they basically told him to sit in a chair until it heals,” she said.
lthough not many medical practitioners use phototherapy, and DeBerard admitted there is still a need for more research, it has reached common usage in certain cases. Infants are sometimes treated for jaundice in hospitals using bili lights or biliblankets, which emit blue light onto the skin. Jaundice happens when there is too much of a yellow substance called bilirubin in the skin, and the bili lights and blankets (portable light devices that can be used at home) break down the substance.
DeBerard holds sessions using the LED bed or LED pads, working with people who have a variety of issues, from sports injuries to skin conditions, and who are looking for the benefits light therapy claims to offer. Sessions cost roughly $1 per minute.
Advanced light therapy coach Marta DeBerard became interested in light therapy in 2011, when she was looking for a proactive, alternative solution to help her father’s leg heal faster from a blood clot. He was in his 70s and on a blood thinner for the clot, and had an oozing sore in his leg. That’s when she remembered a friend telling her about light therapy.
“We were just really concerned about his leg and his ability to heal up from that and not get another infection, and he wanted to ski again, and they basically told him to sit in a chair until it heals,” she said.
lthough not many medical practitioners use phototherapy, and DeBerard admitted there is still a need for more research, it has reached common usage in certain cases. Infants are sometimes treated for jaundice in hospitals using bili lights or biliblankets, which emit blue light onto the skin. Jaundice happens when there is too much of a yellow substance called bilirubin in the skin, and the bili lights and blankets (portable light devices that can be used at home) break down the substance.
DeBerard holds sessions using the LED bed or LED pads, working with people who have a variety of issues, from sports injuries to skin conditions, and who are looking for the benefits light therapy claims to offer. Sessions cost roughly $1 per minute.
