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LED (Light Emitting Diode) therapy utilizes various wavelengths of light, including red and infrared, to provide a non-invasive, calming treatment. This therapy activates the body’s natural mechanisms for alleviating pain and enhances overall wellness and optimal physiological functioning. LED therapy is also referred to as red light therapy, low-level light therapy, or photobiomodulation (PBM).
Our LightStim Bed, which is FDA-approved, helps in the management of arthritic pain and minor aches and pains, relaxes muscles, and boosts local blood circulation. It is ideal for reducing discomfort from post-exercise fatigue, injuries from sports or accidents, back pain, arthritis, and general stiffness. LED therapy is free of ultraviolet rays, making it safe for frequent use.
Ways to Experience the Benefits of LED
Relax on our LightStim bed for 20 minutes to help reduce arthritic pain and stiffness, reduce inflammation and increase blood flow, which is the body’s natural way of aiding the healing process by bringing oxygen and nutrients to the areas of pain.
Light Emitting Diode (LED) therapy is a process that uses varying wavelengths of light including red and infrared light for a non-invasive, soothing and gentle treatment. It sets in motion the body’s inherent pain-relieving process while promoting total body wellness and peak physiological function. LED light therapy is also known as red light therapy, low level light therapy or photobiomodulation (PBM).
Our LightStim Bed is FDA cleared to relieve arthritic pain, a variety of minor aches and pains, relax muscles and increase local blood circulation. You can use it for post-workout soreness, accidents and sports injuries, backaches, arthritis and stiffness. LED does not contain ultraviolet rays which therefore makes it safe for regular use.
You will be in a private room, where you’ll be offered towels and eye coverings. You lay unclothed on the bed for 20 minutes, then the lights will go off indicating it is time to turn over for another 20 minutes. While you are resting on your back, the anti-aging light shield will be placed over your face. The bed feels warm, but it does not get hot.
Yes, it is safe to combine any of our other therapies with an LED session. In fact, LED is a great adjunct to massage, facials or IV therapy. The anti-aging face shield and pain shield are portable, so they can often be done while you are doing certain other therapies, like ionic foot bath or IV therapy.
Red Light Therapy is safe to be done on a regular basis, even as often as 3-5 sessions per week.
Acupuncture is a type of traditional Chinese medicine that’s been around for about 2,500 years. It’s used to support wellness and improve overall mental and physical well-being. The acupuncturist places needles into specific points on the skin to help activate an energy in the body, called qi. According to traditional Chinese medicine, qi is the lifeforce energy in the body — it helps regulate and move things in the body to keep us well. Stress, environmental factors, lifestyle behaviors, and genetics are some of the things that can block qi in the body. The needles help to unblock or move qi to other areas in the body to help support wellness.
Acupuncture needles are solid, stainless steel needles that are usually not much larger than a strand of hair. Acupuncture needles are placed at a very shallow depth and go between tissues, making them less painful than a typical injection.
You might be more sensitive in certain areas, but acupuncture shouldn’t hurt. If you feel pain, tell your acupuncturist. They’ll adjust the needles or choose other points. Their goal is not to make you feel pain. They do a lot of work to position you properly and make sure you feel comfortable.
Indeed you can do acupuncture or massage while pregnant. It is safe and our practitioners are very well versed in how to treat pregnant women. Please let us know when you book a treatment if you are pregnant and how far along you are.
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Cindy Nilson is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Full Mesa Carrier, Reiki Master and Intuitive advisor. Utilizing acupuncture, energy-infused acupressure massage therapy and body psychology, she integrates teachings from eastern medicine, shamanism, energy/chakra healing and archetypal patterns to provide a unique diagnostic perspective and treatment experience. Specializing in how stress, our thoughts and emotions affect the physical body, and resourcing from the 10,000 hours spent honing her work, Cindy creates new and exciting collaboratives to her foundations in acupuncture therapy. She believes joining Alive + Well is the joyous culmination of her work and is excited to share this beautiful environment and healing space with her clients.
Cindy holds a B.A. from Texas A&M University and a Masters degree from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine. In 1999 she received her Doctor of Oriental Medicine from the New Mexico State Board of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. A native of Central Texas, she has been in private practice in Lakeway, where she lives happily married, raising kids.