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cold therapy, cold thermogenesis, cryotherapy, health, infrared, intensity, irradiance, light therapy, photobiomodulation, red light therapy, sun, sunlight, wavelength - May 13, 2020

Keeping Cool with Red Light Therapy: Why We Don’t Mix Light and Heat

Is it beneficial to mix heat and light? Can we improve the safety and effectiveness of Photobiomodulation by keeping the tissue cool? We explore how it could be advantageous to avoid too much tissue heating during photobiomodulation. And in fact cooling the tissue beforehand can improve penetration and effectiveness!

Red and Near Infrared Light and Eye Safety - Seeing Is Believing

Red and Near-Infrared (NIR) can be helpful or harmful for the eyes - it all depends on the intensity and context! Read our analysis of industry guidelines for eye safety, and take extra care to protect your eyes!

Universal Dosage Calculator for Red Light Therapy! Find your optimal time per session!

Use our simple universal dosage calculator to find your ideal time to do light therapy!

All you need to do it enter in the Irradiance (mW/cm^2) and the desired Dose (J/cm^2) that you are looking for! You can even use it for any red light panel in the industry, assuming they provide you with accurate 3rd party measurements, and not just cheap solar power meter measurements.

Beam Angle for LED Red Light Therapy: Do Degrees Matter?

Once you are familiar with all of the important parameters of wavelengths, intensity, flicker, and nnEMF that we cover in previous blog posts, it might be time to dig deeper into what other design choices might be important for Photobiomodulation devices. One interesting topic is the Beam Angle! This describes the angle at which light is emitted from the device. If you can imagine in 3D space, light is being emitted as a kind of semi-spherical cone outward from the light source. The angle of this cone is important to determine how to best use the device. For example wide...

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red light therapy, wavelength, wavelengths - January 17, 2019

Engineer's Guide to Selecting Wavelengths for Photobiomodulation / Red Light Therapy

We outline a data-driven and engineering-focused method to selecting the most ideal wavelengths for Red Light Therapy and Photobiomodulation.