Recent studies have proven that phototherapy is not only safe for those recovering from traumatic brain injury, but it facilitates healing of neural networks which have been injured. Per the findings published this month in the JAMA Network Open, researchers have “concluded that low-level light therapy is safe in the treatment of moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI).” Their “investigation of 68 patients with moderate TBI showed that light therapy statistically significantly altered multiple diffusion tensor parameters in the late subacute stage,” thereby providing “evidence that light therapy engages the neural substrates that affect the pathophysiologic factors associated with moderate traumatic brain injury.” JAMA is the Journal of the American Medical Association, which provides medical doctors with studies that direct standards for patient care.
Visionary Optometry of Long Island has been providing syntonic phototherapy since its beginning and Dr. Ceonzo is a member of the College of Syntonic Optometry, the premier group providing continuing education and supporting research in this ever growing field of vision and health care. Optometric Syntonic phototherapy works in a similar manner to the transcranial phototherapy used in this study and uses specific wavelengths of light which are viewed to treat several different visual disorders that affect not only patients recovering from traumatic brain injuries, but those with diagnoses as varied as strabismus, amblyopia, eyestrain, visual fatigue, and oculomotor dysfunction.