Sick Sailors Getting LED Treatment
From Times Wire Reports
Sailors who visit the sick bay on a San Diego-based submarine are getting LED therapy -- a treatment that uses the healing power of light-emitting diodes, those little red lights found on many TVs and computers.
The military wants to know whether the technology has the potential to speed healing of battlefield injuries. LED treatments reduced recovery time by about half in a preliminary study aboard the Salt Lake City, a nuclear submarine based at Naval Base Point Loma.
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