Different Types of Light Therapy and Their Benefits

Light therapy has quickly become very popular among people who are always highly concerned about their fitness and health. It has earned recognition by a budget method of therapy that can provide you a huge amount of benefit regarding your mental health, skincare, energy, sleep cycle, muscle growth, etc. It's being entirely painless and side-effect-free has made it more acceptable among people, and not to mention the ease of usage it provides. You can easily take this therapy at your home all by yourself by using different kinds of light therapy devices that are not much expensive to get.

As said earlier, light therapy can take care of a wide range of problems you might go through, both physically and mentally. But a single type of light therapy doesn’t take care of all these problems. There are lights of different colors and many different spectra, and each color of light has its own specific set of features and benefits. You can’t have the benefits of blue light therapy by going through red light therapy. The vice versa is not possible either.

Moreover, the type of device you are going to use might change due to the change in the type of light. So, to use light therapy, you need to know about the types of lights that are used in light therapy so that you can know what type or color of light you should use to solve your problem. Also, it will help you to determine the type of device you need to get. So, let’s look at all the different types of lights and what kind of services each of them provides.

Red Light Therapy

Among all the types of light therapies out there, red light therapy is the most popular and the most useful one till now. The number of benefits you can get from red light therapy is huge. Red light therapy deals with a wide range of problems. First of all, if you go through red light therapy you will get a huge energy drive. You will feel more energetic and will be able to pay more attention to your day-to-day tasks. Moreover, red light therapy can take care of your circadian rhythm or sleep cycle. Especially if you are facing problems regarding sleeping in time or problems regarding a night shift, red light therapy must be your go-to treatment process.

Not only those, but red light therapy can also provide solutions regarding different mental health problems too. Red light therapy can help you deal with the seasonal affective disorder during winter days by balancing the generation of melatonin in your body, the way sunlight does it in summer. The seasonal affective disorder can cause depression, sadness, sleepiness, tiredness, etc. and red light therapy might be able to help you with all these. Apart from these, red light therapy can stimulate your hair growth and help with baldness. Not to mention the skin problems such as stretch marks, wrinkles, etc. that can be treated by red light. Red light can make you look younger, and improve the blood circulation of the body too. Red light therapy comes in many kinds of devices such as lightboxes, face masks, therapy lamps, etc.

Blue Light Therapy

Blue light therapy is mainly known for treating different skin problems, especially acne. Blue light therapy destroys the specific kind of bacteria that lives on your skin and causes acne and reduces acne from your skin. Blue light therapy can be taken for other skin problems too without your having to face any kind of side effects. Blue light therapy can help you with sleep-related problems too. You can have face masks, therapy lamps, etc. that can provide you blue light therapy.

Yellow Light Therapy

Researches are still ongoing on yellow light therapy to know what are specific benefits of it. However, it has shown very promising results regarding skincare treatments and especially can be used to remove dark spots from your skin.

Green Light Therapy

Greenlight therapy can penetrate and go through the surface of your skin, and it can enhance the effects of other light therapy treatments. So, it works the best when you’ll use it as an add-on treatment with some other light therapy treatment.

Infrared Light Therapy

Infrared light doesn’t belong to the visible light spectrum, and it has a longer wavelength than any visible light. However, its wavelength is closer to red light, as a result, it is known as infrared light. Infrared light therapy lamps can radiate an ample amount of heat, and the infrared light it provides can help you in different ways. Infrared light can cut body fat and help you to keep in shape. But most importantly, infrared light therapy can give you relief from pain in your nerves, muscles, joints, etc. It can heal wounds in a faster way too. This therapy is also used to increase the body’s immunity against cancer. Newborn babies are kept warm in the NICU by using infrared light.

UV Light Therapy

UV light is mainly considered to be dangerous for our health, so the usage of UV light has been massively reduced. However, there are a few usages of UV lights that can help us. UV light can be used to sterilize different things, including food items. UV light helps newborn babies to fight jaundice. It also helps to help oxygen absorption in our bodies, and treat different skin conditions such as eczema, atopic dermatitis, vitiligo, etc.

Final Words

Light therapy technologies have experienced huge advancement during the last few years, and the advancement process is still ongoing. Researchers and scientists are still trying hard to find the true potentials of all kinds of light therapy so that humankind can be hugely benefited from this revolutionary method of therapy.