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Article: Light may ease pain, numbness for diabetics.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- May 20, 2004
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Byline: Kawanza L. Griffin
MILWAUKEE _ It seems almost too simple to work: Significantly reduce pain and numbness that prescription medications can't defeat by passing near-infrared light through the skin.
But that's what physical therapists are doing for many patients who have been unable to get relief from traditional medical treatments for a common complication of diabetes.
Use of monochromatic infrared energy, or MIRE, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994 to treat patients with diabetic neuropathy, though many health care professionals have not used it in their treatment plans.
Diabetic neuropathy is ...