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Veterinary MLS® Laser Therapy

Providing unparalleled clinical results and fast treatment times without the risk of collateral tissue damage – featuring 75 watts of peak power that doesn’t generate heat.

Overview of Laser Therapy

Laser Therapy, the fastest-growing modality within the veterinary market, will allow you to expand your service offerings while adding profit to your practice!

MLS Laser Therapy, a Class IV technology, provides…

  • Effective treatment of painful and debilitating conditions
  • Patient safety without the risk of collateral tissue damage
  • A patented pulse pattern delivering unparalleled clinical results

 

There are many types of veterinary lasers. Each laser has different characteristics which result in a different effect. These characteristics include:

  • Energy: measured in joules
  • Time: Defined as the duration of irradiance of the target tissue and is measured in seconds.  It is also known as Impulse Duration or called “impulse width”.
  • Wavelength: Penetration depth is directed by the laser emission wavelength and the type of tissue (chromophores).
  • Frequency: Defined as the number of impulses emitted during the unit of time (1 second) and should reflect the condition treated.
  • Power: the rate at which energy is delivered and is measured in watts.
  • Fluence: Energy Density or Dose
  • Irradiance (Also known as Power Density): Power delivered per unit area
  • Emission Mode: Continuous Wave (CW) or Pulsed Wave (PW)
  • Impulse Duration: Duration of laser emission, also called “impulse width”.

 

Laser therapy uses light to favor and accelerate the body’s natural healing processes. The laser beam is moved over the skin so that the light energy (photons) penetrates the tissue where it interacts with various molecules (chromophores) that cause different biological effects. It produces a photochemical, photothermal, and photomechanical effect.

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Benefits of Veterinary MLS® Laser Therapy

The innovative and patented Multiwave Locked System® (MLS) Therapy Laser was developed in an effort to produce an efficient and simultaneous effect on pain, inflammation, and edema, exceeding the limits of traditional LLLT (low power) and concerns of HP (high power) laser therapy. MLS technology delivers therapeutic wavelengths, 808nm (anti-edemic and anti-inflammatory) and 905nm (analgesic), allowing a tissue penetration depth of 3-4 cm. An energetic synergy is created when delivering these wavelengths that produces greater anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects than either can produce on its own, while minimizing the risk of thermal damage. It is this unique combination and synchronization of continuous and pulsed emissions that characterizes MLS and distinguishes it from other Class IV lasers.

Unlike early-generation Class IV technology, MLS Laser Therapy has the capability to deliver controlled laser energy. This unique feature provides more accurate therapeutic dose delivery, which means consistent and repeatable results.

With high levels of efficacy, safety, and consistency, MLS Laser Therapy can help physicians relieve pain and restore lives, while rewarding their practice financially.

Therapeutic Benefits

The MLS Laser Therapy technology is the most advanced laser therapy system on the market. Reduction of response times, and therefore overall treatment times, distinguishes MLS Laser Therapy from traditional laser therapy with reciprocal advantages for both the operator and the patient.

Financial Benefits

MLS Laser Therapy allows physicians to leverage technology to provide higher quality patient care, while attracting new clients, generating additional revenue, and ultimately improving businesses’ bottom line.

Practices benefit financially by:

  • Superior clinical results in both routine and specialty treatments.
  • Practice differentiation by leveraging technology for better medicine.
  • Short learning curve: build upon pre-existing therapy skills.
  • Rapid return on investment.
  • Increasing client satisfaction and referrals.
MLS Laser Therapy has an anti-edema effect as it causes vasodilation, but also because it activates the lymphatic drainage system which drains swollen areas. As a result, there is a reduction in swelling caused by bruising or inflammation.
MLS Laser Therapy has a beneficial effect on nerve cells. It blocks pain transmitted by these cells to the brain which decreases nerve sensitivity. Also, due to the decreased inflammation, there is less edema and less pain. Another pain blocking mechanism involves the production of high levels of pain killing chemicals such as endorphins and enkephalin from the brain and adrenal glands.
Photons of light from lasers penetrate deeply into tissue and accelerate cellular reproduction and growth. The laser light increases the energy available to the cell so that the cell can take on nutrients faster and get rid of waste products. As a result of exposure to laser light, damaged cells are repaired faster.
Laser light will significantly increase the formation of new capillaries in damaged tissue which speeds up the healing process, closes wounds quickly and reduces scar tissue. Additional benefits include acceleration of angiogenesis, which causes temporary vasodilation and increases the diameter of blood vessels.
MLS Laser Therapy creates higher outputs of specific enzymes, greater oxygen and food particle loads for blood cells.
MLS Laser Therapy stimulates muscle trigger points and acupuncture points on a noninvasive basis providing musculoskeletal pain relief.
MLS Laser Therapy reduces the formation of scar tissue following tissue damage from cuts, scratches, burns or surgery.
Slow recovery of nerve functions in damaged tissue can result in numbness and impaired limbs. Laser light speeds the process of nerve cell reconnection and increases the amplitude of action potentials to optimize muscle healing.
Laser light has a direct effect on immunity status by stimulating immunoglobulins and lymphocytes. Laser emissions are absorbed by chromophores (molecule enzymes) that react to laser light. Upon exposure to the laser, the enzyme flavomononucleotide is activated and starts the production of ATP (adenosinetriphosphate), which is the major carrier of cell energy and the energy source for all chemical reactions in the cells.
Laser light stimulates fibroblast development in damaged tissue. Fibroblasts are the building blocks of collagen, which is the essential protein required to replace old tissue or to repair tissue injuries. As a result, MLS Laser Therapy is effective post surgically and in the treatment of open wounds and burns.

Biological Effects

Primary

Secondary

Laser Classifications

Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) Class IIIB

Safe but less effective.

These lasers use very low power, are limited to surface biostimulation, and often require many treatment sessions and long treatment times.  Results are only achieved at the end of the treatment cycle, and results are limited because of the use of only one or two wavelengths that are not synchronized.
 

High Power (HP) Class IV

Powerful but potentially dangerous.

These lasers were developed with the expectation that greater power corresponded to better efficiency.  On the contrary, unless suitably controlled, high power can thermally damage the treated tissue.  Therefore, the majority of high power lasers cannot operate at their maximum power without causing damage.

 

Multiwave Locked System (MLS) Class IV

Effective and safe.

MLS Laser Therapy is a patented emission system created to achieve an efficient and simultaneous effect on pain, contracture, inflammation, and edema within a short period of time.  The patented control system that generates the MLS pulse synchronizes the emissions to achieve optimum results.  Due to this characteristic synchronization, the various therapeutic effects not only take place at the same time, but reciprocally reinforce each other, without the risk of thermal damage.

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Science

Multiwave Locked System (MLS) Laser Therapy is a patented, FDA cleared technology designed to produce an efficient and simultaneous effect on pain, contracture, inflammation, and edema within a short period of time. The control system that generates the MLS pulse synchronizes the emissions to achieve optimum results. Due to this unique synchronization, the various therapeutic effects not only take place at the same time, but reciprocally reinforce each other, without the risk of thermal damage.

Testimonials

“We have seen significantly more reduction in pain for cervical cases over the Class 3B laser or acupuncture treatments used previously.”
Kristin Browne, DVM, CCRT
Kristin Browne, DVM, CCRTTheravet Acres Rehabilitation and Fitness
“Many of our faculty have reported positive outcomes treating a wide range of conditions with MLS Laser Therapy.”
Janet B. Van Dyke, DVM, DACVSMR
Janet B. Van Dyke, DVM, DACVSMRCEO and Founder, Canine Rehabilitation Institute
“I feel extremely comfortable with this laser being used by my veterinary technicians who have been trained in its use. Similar to traditional medication, I prescribe a dose of laser and route of administration, and the veterinary technician administers the treatment.”
Kristin Kirkby, DVM, DACVS, CCRT
Kristin Kirkby, DVM, DACVS, CCRTSeattle Veterinary Specialists
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FAQ

MLS Laser Therapy has been cleared for the temporary relief of muscle and joint pain and stiffness, arthritis pain, or muscle spasm. It has been reported that pain associated with arthritis, tendonitis, wounds, post-surgical swelling, inflamed ears, lick granuloma, hip dysplasia, disc disease, lameness, sinusitis and other conditions have been effectively treated with MLS.

MLS Laser Therapy uses both the 808nm and 905nm wavelengths simultaneously. The 808nm wavelength is delivered using continuous emission while the 905nm wavelength is delivered using pulsed emission. Additionally, a 635nm wavelength is emitted to highlight the target area.

MLS Laser Therapy uses two wavelengths to overcome the limits of traditional Laser Therapy. Traditional Laser therapy does not deliver both wavelengths in a reinforcing and synchronized fashion. Continuous laser emissions act fast on inflammation, stimulating blood and lymphatic circulation and inducing fast re-absorption of fluid build ups; however they only have a secondary effect on pain, which is diminished after reducing the inflammatory process. Pulsed laser emissions, on the other hand, have a practically immediate effect on pain, since they are able to induce analgesia, interfering with the very transmission of the pain impulse to the higher brain centers, but they are less effective at treating inflammation and edema.

The FDA has cleared the use of MLS Laser Therapy and it is also patented via the U.S. Patent Office.

MLS Laser Therapy is able to induce strong anti-inflammatory, anti-edema, and analgesic effects simultaneously and within a short period of time. LLLT cannot achieve these results because of the limitations of using one or two wavelengths that are not synchronized. The patented control system that generates the MLS pulse synchronizes the emissions to achieve results previously unattainable. Thanks to this characteristic synchronization, the various therapeutic effects not only take place at the same time but reciprocally reinforce each other.

MLS Stands for Multiwave Locked System. MLS is the name of the technology used that utilizes the patented combination of wavelengths.

Yes, MLS Lasers are Class IV lasers with a peak power of 75 watts.

The depth of penetration varies due to tissue type, but it will penetrate 3-5 cm in most cases.

Results can often been seen after the first treatment. Most conditions have protocols that range from 6-12 treatments. The treatments are cumulative and are delivered 2-3 times per week for 2-3 weeks.

MLS Laser Therapy has been developed and tested following a strict course of biomedical and clinical research. The effectiveness of the combination of the emissions making up the MLS pulse was initially tested in vitro on cellular cultures, then in vivo on animals, and finally by means of controlled clinical trials run by major state-of-the-art health organizations for treating traumatic and degenerative painful diseases.

Boost Your Veterinary Practices Revenue with Laser Therapy

The ongoing financial success of a veterinary practice depends largely on the ability to attract new customers. It is also important to build strong relationships with current clients to encourage repeat business. The addition of new products and services can help accomplish both goals while also boosting revenue.
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