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Article: Light may ease pain
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2004
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Light may ease pain, numbness
Diabetic neuropathy hard to control with medication
By KAWANZA L. GRIFFIN kgriffin@journalsentinel.com, Journal
Sentinel
Monday, May 17, 2004
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 ...