The Bearable Lightness of Healing. In the next few years, a new form of therapy will likely play a critical role in treating injuries for athletes and patients. Light can bring injured cells back to life. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]

Infared light, which has been used as a means of therapy in Europe for over 30 years, is starting to be used here in the States as a means of speeding the healing process. Sports teams are adopting it first, and we'll probably see this as a commonplace thing in the next 12 years, should it prove to be effective,  if the proliferation of MRI's can be used as a measure of how fast medical tech gets adopted.

I'm especially interested (read: Smelling snake oil) in the claims of healing spinal cord injuries, which thus far have proved to be the holy grail of modern medicine. Maybe some combination of stem cells and this could do the trick...

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