Science fiction medicine doesn’t get much better than what’s offered onboard Star Trek’s USS Enterprise. Beamed up to the ship with a gaping phaser wound, the patient is sent to sickbay, where “Bones” McCoy directs a handheld device emitting a ray of light onto the injury. It shrinks and vanishes in seconds, leaving not even the trace of a scar. It may not work so fast or so perfectly, but the technology of light medicine is already with us. Called low-level laser therapy (LLLT), it has been used by some cutting-edge practitioners for decades, and the field is advancing at …read more
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