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Light as medicine?

Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 2:31 am
by MSUK
Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes progressive paralysis by destroying nerve cells and the spinal cord. It interrupts vision, balance and even thinking.

On a suggestion from a colleague, Jeri-Anne Lyons decided to test how the disease responded to a radical therapy – exposure to a certain wavelength of light called near-infrared (NIR).

"Never in a million years did I think it would help," says Lyons, an associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), who studies the role of the immune response in MS....... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/MSnews

Re: Light as medicine?

Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:10 am
by Loriyas
I find this very interesting. Kinda like Star Trek !

Re: Light as medicine?

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:19 am
by centenarian100
MSUK wrote:Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes progressive paralysis by destroying nerve cells and the spinal cord. It interrupts vision, balance and even thinking.

On a suggestion from a colleague, Jeri-Anne Lyons decided to test how the disease responded to a radical therapy – exposure to a certain wavelength of light called near-infrared (NIR).

"Never in a million years did I think it would help," says Lyons, an associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), who studies the role of the immune response in MS....... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/MSnews
The link is just to a list of articles. I don't see the one you're referring to.

Re: Light as medicine?

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:49 am
by euphoniaa
centenarian100 wrote:
MSUK wrote:Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes progressive paralysis by destroying nerve cells and the spinal cord. It interrupts vision, balance and even thinking.

On a suggestion from a colleague, Jeri-Anne Lyons decided to test how the disease responded to a radical therapy – exposure to a certain wavelength of light called near-infrared (NIR).

"Never in a million years did I think it would help," says Lyons, an associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), who studies the role of the immune response in MS....... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/MSnews
The link is just to a list of articles. I don't see the one you're referring to.
At that site, you just have to scroll down a bit until you see that title, since there have been several articles posted since that one was posted a week ago.

Re: Light as medicine?

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 12:04 pm
by miri
MSUK, here's what I posted back in May regarding InfraRed. I now added pics for clarification.

For some reason the pics are HUGE when linked via TinyPic. Not sure why.

http://www.thisisms.com/forum/post209536.html#p209536