The Body Already Knows How to Heal — Class IV Laser Helps It Remember
The Body Already Knows How to Heal — Class IV Laser Helps It Remember We've been getting inflammation wrong for a long time. Not completely wrong. But wrong enough that the default response to almost every acute injury — ice it, take some anti-inflammatories, rest — has been quietly working against the people following it for decades. I don't say that to be provocative. I say it because understanding why that approach falls short is the key to understanding why Class IV laser therapy has become one of the most important tools we use at Complete Rehab — and why the results we see with it are so consistently different from what patients have experienced elsewhere. The short version is this: inflammation isn't the enemy. It's the solution. And when we stop suppressing it and start supporting it, the body heals faster, more completely, and with better tissue quality than most people thought was possible. What We Were Taught About Inflammation For most of the last fifty ye...