The beneficial applications of low level laser therapy - Medical Journalist Report of Innovative Biologics

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Nov, 2002 by Morton Walker

The Modern Day Visionary of Laser Therapeutics

Born in a South Dakota sod farmhouse, growing up having no indoor plumbing, no electricity, and with nature's woodlands as his playground, the genius Larry Lytle, BS, DDS, PhD (in nutrition), has become a legend in his own time. Now at age 67, Dr. Lytle is the modern day visionary of laser therapeutics. Most of his waking hours are spent as consultant and instructor/lecturer for a highly progressive laser device manufacturer. Even though his lectures are exceedingly well attended, he derives no income from the manufacturer's distribution of laser instruments to medical consumers, health professionals, or retail outlets.

Dr. Larry Lytle had been an immensely successful holistic dentist, a profession from which he retired four years ago. Additionally this accomplished health professional performed as a Ph.D. nutritionist until low level laser therapy captured his imagination. For the past ten years Dr. Lytle has been perfecting positive laser therapeutic responses and he owns patents for the legal protection of his inventions. Accordingly, benefits have emerged from the biological absorption, dispersion, refraction, reflection and other physiological reactions to laser light energy (see Dr. Larry Lytle in Photograph 1.)

Descriptions of Four LLLT Instruments

Laser instruments are manufactured in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some are handheld as with cordless telephones; others are pencil-thin and aimed like flashlights. One handheld laser, the Q100, incorporates four light-emitting diodes and four laser diodes with red and infrared laser outputs.

The light-emitting diode (LED) is a light source with a relatively narrow band. The LED is actually a semiconductor lamp which produces primarily red light emitting a wavelength of 660 nm. But some LEDs also emit yellow, green, or blue light. The laser diode is an electron tube of the high-vacuum type inserted into the laser instrument. It has a cold anode and a heated cathode, used as the rectifier of alternating current; it's a demodulator.

The Q100 operates on rechargeable DC batteries and affords two settings, one that harmonizes the brain and heart and a second for several effects: healing tissue, reducing inflammation, and eliminating pain. Small and maneuverable the Q100 may be applicable for minor injuries of domestic animals such as horses. It is useful for healing an animal's cuts, bruises, burns, sprains, ringbone, navicular, pasterns, wind puffs, splints, stifles, and proud flesh. It can penetrate deeply for treatment of difficult problems such as bowed tendons, tendonitis, arthritis, and bone trauma (see the horse's healing leg in Photographs 2, 3 & 4).

The Q1000 laser instrument is implanted with 20 diodes clustered in a hand-held, ultra-portable, telephone-size unit and contains additional capabilities which furnish frequencies from 1 to 20,000 Hertz. It produces healing in a sort of "shotgun approach" to cover a large area of injury. It is computerized and may be reprogrammed at the factory to produce frequencies and power densities that are beneficial for specific health problems. Powered by 7.2 V intelligent Lithium-Ion batteries, the Q1000 laser delivers its multiple wavelengths, power settings and time intervals through several different modes. It contains more than twice the number of lights and lasers and a broader energy range than the Q100 so that the Q100 provides a wider range of therapies for animals and humans.