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From: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
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Subject: A query regarding IR Laser treatment of Shin-splints
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Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 03:00:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 16 03:00:26 1985
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My wife hurt her legs doing aerobic exercises a few weeks ago.
(she had stopped for a month and then had a vigorous workout...)
Her injury looked like shin-splints, but I seem to remember
her mention diagnosis of a damaged muscle as well.

The Physio-therapist wants to use a low power laser to promote
healing.  Has anybody heard of this before?  The physio wrote
down the appropriate points on a sheet of paper for me ...

	-- Low power IR laser
	-- Non Thermal
	-- Non ionizing - no radiation
	-- no side effects.

The points that are out of my league: 

	-- collagen repair instead of scar tissue
	-- inflammatory progress -OA,RA			???

	-- Omniproble
	-- Meldelco

Could some kind soul decode and comment on this treatment?  Is it a
standard one?

			Thanks,

			Kevin

-- 
Kevin Szabo' watmath!watvlsi!ksbszabo (U of W VLSI Group, Waterloo, Ont, Canada)