Doc. MUDr. Leoš Středa, Ph.D. .
COSMETOLOGY APPLIANCES FOR REGENERATION AND AESTHETIC MEDICINE 3
B82172 Course in English 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University
3. PHOTOTHERAPY INTRODUCTION
Phototherapy=Light Therapy modern medical discipline, historically: different light sources were always used in medicine, with a little exaggeration (nadsázka), light therapy can be described as the oldest healing technique ever, if we take into consideration the biblical "Let there be light!" (Fiat lux), use of therapeutic sunlight effect is probably the oldest method in phototherapy, to some degree it is still used today in the climatotherapy, part of balneology.
Phototherapy Is part of physical therapy technique uses visible and invisible part of light spectrum
Biostimulation Phototherapy in Aesthetic Medicine Soft-lasers: biostimulation lasers with power up to 50 mW VIP = visible incoherent polarized light:
Fotonyx : quasi-monochromatic polarized light _____________________________________________________________________________________
Sources of ultraviolet and infrared light
Invasive Phototherapy in Aestehetic Medicine Lasers with an power output of 100 W are used in aesthetic surgery in 3 modes: spot evaporation (elimination of different types of warts and naevi) surface evaporation, the vaporization (laser resurfacing=výbrus), laser scalpel (e.g. transconjunctival blepharoplasty). IPL – intense pulse light