Fundamental Mechanisms of Laser Biomodulation

As has been the case with technology throughout history, this field was pioneered by engineers, not academics, and it’s a good thing. After all, if we waited until we understood why something works before we used it, we would be in the stone-age, literally (people were eating vegetables before they knew why plants grew and warming their bodies with fire before they knew about combustion). This young field has therefore suffered from the zeal of its boosters; people had found a way to make money, and to their defense, improve patient quality of life, and so were much less interested in learning why this therapy worked. In this last decade, the research community has been catching up and we have ever-growing insight into the mechanisms of this highly successful field.