"But it appears to those of us working in the ward - the doctors, the nurses - that patients getting the light treatment get significantly less sores," Margolis noted.
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL TRIAL
The trial Margolis is involved with started only recently, so he won't pronounce any definite conclusions. In an earlier study, mucositis in bone-marrow transplant recipients dropped to 58 percent from an expected 70 percent to 90 percent after daily treatment using a 670-nanometer LED array. It's basically an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which results in canker sores in the mouth and throat. He and Whelan are part of a seven-hospital clinical test to see if LEDs can reduce one of the nastier side effects of chemotherapy, called mucositis. David Margolis, a pediatrics professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, expressed similar sentiments. Maybe it makes you more mature, or it forces you to see things differently. However, sometimes in life you hit bottom, your absolute bitter, dark, godforsaken bottom. Nearly two-thirds are completely back to normal, Prendergast said.īut, when asked why he's seen such startling results, Prendergast said, "It just goes up that's all I know."ĭr. Like everyone in this convoluted world I have ups and downs highs and lows. After about 10 treatments of 40 minutes each, 95 percent of those people reported having some feeling restored to their feet. Joseph Prendergast, a Redwood City, California, endocrinologist, says he's used LED therapy on more than 200 patients with diabetic neuropathy. That, in turn, stimulates blood flow, which can cause nerves to break their brittle nature, and grow again.ĭr. Nitric oxide is a vasodilator - a substance that causes blood vessels to expand. The diodes' flashes combat this by momentarily breaking nitric oxide away from hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen, Bertwell asserts. There are just working hypotheses," said Marti Jett, chief of the molecular pathology department at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.īecause of all the sugar in a diabetic's blood, the nerve endings can become brittle.
Medicare has even approved some LED therapy.ĭespite all that effort, "there's not a clear idea of how this works. Magazines and television crews have drooled on cue. There's a light at the end of the tunnel There's a chance that it ain't gonna rain There's a light at the end of the tunnel And for once it ain't a fast moving train All these lines in my face. Businesses have sold commercial LED zappers to nursing homes and doctors' offices. NASA, the Pentagon and dozens of hospitals have participated in clinical trials.
But what they can't decide on is why all these seemingly miraculous effects happen in the first place.įor more than a decade, researchers have been studying how light-emitting diodes, or LEDs - miniscule, ultra-efficient bulbs like the ones found in digital clocks and television remotes - might aid in the recuperative process. The phrase a light at the end of the tunnel was popularized by President John Kennedy in the 1960’s. The phrase was used as a metaphor for hope in old newspapers and magazines. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I’d set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.On this much, scientists and doctors agree: Tiny flashes of infrared light can play a role in healing wounds, building muscle, turning back the worst effects of diabetes and repairing blinded eyes. Is the light at the end of the tunnel a metaphor There is a dark space with one image in it. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel. If you see the light at the end of the tunnel, you’re looking through binoculars the wrong way. The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, he’s going to keep digging, he’s going to keep trying to do right and make up for what’s gone before, just because that’s who he is. If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want. Some days are better than others … It’s been a long journey, but we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now. Struggling is hard because you never know what’s at the end of the tunnel. The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but how long is the tunnel? ~ David Briggs The light at the end of the tunnel is well worth the journey it took to get there.
Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train. Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel we don’t even know where the tunnel is. Wise or otherwise The French proverb taught us that every wise. ~ Emir KusturicaĪs a matter of fact, there is still a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. Because I don’t see the light in the end of the tunnel.
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL MOVIE
~ Emily BluntĮvery time I’m shooting a movie I want to kill myself. There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.
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