The Power of Light - Revolutionize Patient Care

Customizable Red Light Technology to Revolutionize Patient Care

Red light therapy (RLT) is well-documented in the physical therapy industry for its healing properties, including increasing blood flow, post-workout recovery, injury prevention and more. Yet RLT is a fairly new technology, so best practices for its use are limited. 

The team at Icaro has created a solution. Icaro’s photobiomodulation therapy device helps increase blood flow, stimulate the mitochondria in cells, and increase the production of nitric oxide involved in vasodilation, resulting in numerous health and wellness applications from recovery to improved cognitive function. Best of all, Icaro’s customized light source is equipped with an advanced control system for an individualized patient care solution.

Now in dozens of chiropractic offices across the United States, Icaro hopes to streamline RLT for medical professionals that provides client-centric solutions to pain management, tendinitis, and more. The team at Icaro is available for product demonstrations and more, please let me know if you are interested in speaking with them and I can connect you directly.

The Power of Light

With over five decades of experience in the lighting industry, Fred Maxik, Michael Miller, and Ran Zhou spent much of their careers working to save millions of watts of electricity by making light bulbs more energy efficient. While this may have been beneficial to our planet, it was less so for humans.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American spends 93% of their life indoors. That’s only 7% of your entire life outdoors with little exposure to natural sunlight. As we increasingly spend more time indoors, we are missing key metabolic nutrients from the sun that boost our immune systems, relieve pain, promote relaxation and help wounds heal. Modern light bulbs do not produce certain wavelengths that promote these biological processes. After numerous years spent working and finding success making lights more energy efficient, Fred, Michael and Ran began to realize some of the impacts of their inventions could be detrimental. Now they are on a mission to ensure light is helping people and not hurting them. 

They have refocused their efforts from modern lighting advancement and are at the forefront of rediscovering light through their new company, Icaro. Icaro is a natural and non-pharmaceutical treatment that utilizes the power of light technology to increase blood flow and healing. This results in numerous health and wellness applications from post-workout recovery to injury prevention to pain reduction. Researchers found that athletes using red and near-infrared light therapy saw positive results 2-3 times faster from injury recovery. Icaro’s photobiomodulation therapy device employs customized light sources with an advanced control system in an optimized design that enhances flexibility, portability and longevity while consuming very little energy. 

The Icaro team believes that lighting has been optimized around a metric that only takes into account our vision, not our health and wellness, and are now working to correct this mistake. Please let me know if you are interested in learning more about Fred, Michael and Ran’s extensive work in the lighting industry, how this work translates into their new company and how they are revolutionizing the way we think about light and I can connect you directly with the Icaro team.

Why we need light In day-to-day life

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American spends 93% of their life indoors. That’s only 7% of your entire life outdoors with little exposure to natural sunlight. Ref: https://www.nature.com/articles/7500165

The spectrum of solar radiation reaching the Earth ranges from 290 to more than 1,000,000 nm and is divided as follows: 6.8% UV, 38.9% visible, and 54.3% near infrared radiation (NIR).

Ref: .E. Kochevar, M.A. Pathak, A. PJ, Photophysics, photochemistry, and phobiology; itzpatrick (Ed.), Dermatology in General Medicine, McGraw-Hill, NewYork (1999)

It has been known for almost 50 years that low energy exposure to visible and NIR wavelengths, which mimic the same wavelengths of the light from the sun, is beneficial to humans via the promotion of healing processes.

Ref: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1011134415300713#bb0140

Red and near-infrared light therapy can cut osteoarthritis-related pain by more than 50%. Ref: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1727843/

Researchers found that athletes using red and near-infrared light therapy saw positive results 2-3 times faster from injury recovery.

Ref: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846838/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18272794/