Photo above -: Luminette electroluminescence - glasses are a portable option for patients who received the treatment of light. The...
Photo above -: Luminette electroluminescence - glasses are a portable option for patients who received the treatment of light.
There are a growing number of patients porting suffer arrhythmias sleep circadian who are ready, light therapy to try, but do not want to be with a fixed light source in debt.
A recipe for light therapy was once a prescription before a light box for half an hour or more to sit. Now a handful of companies offer solutions that could attract more active patient: the light emitted ships.
Wearables therapy differ in design, but they share some important similarities. Blue or enriched light blue lights from a fixed point in the vicinity (up or down) of the user's eyes. The glasses are used for the routine of the person morning, usually not more than one hour. Everything, what to avoid UV light; some have adjustable brightness levels; and some synchronization for Fitbits property or fitness tracking applications.
The Re-Timer glasses synchronization Fitbit activity monitor, so that the user control their sleep patterns
As more and more acceptable to people with little time option in the morning, the portable light-compliance could help to improve, said Eric Delloye, CEO of Lucimed, the company that produces Luminette ships. "If you do it every day, it will be much more effective than any other day, for example, be," he said. "So this is very important to have a device that convenient and easy to do."
Søren Søgaard Jensen, CEO of Seqinetic, currently developing its light therapy of the brand glasses, said, "When was the last time you with a morning coffee sat for half an hour on a weekday for me it never happens! the portable light, you are mobile and can move. ".
Seqinetic called "IKEA portable light"
Both Luminette Seqinetic and are directed to the treatment of SAD. But others are marketed specifically for the treatment of sleep disorders. "Approximately 80% of our customers IT-Sofa buys," says CEO Ben Olsen re-timers. Covering this type of syndrome disorder, advanced sleep phase shift sleep disorders and jet lag "when someone is willing to forward to change their sleep cycle or to the rear."
Ayo manufacturers, therapy portable light makes through the user's smartphone controlled, estimates that 40% of customers buy to improve glasses for Ayo sleep patterns. "[W] e our visitors have seen that many of them Ayo preferable to drugs or anything else, because the Ayo body quite naturally is to maintain a level of body rhythm to help and energy healthy every day," said the spokesman of company.
A wide selection of the "pro" column of light therapy on drugs is their apparent lack of side effects. Despite a Cochrane - Review in 2002 of the light therapy in people over 60 years found no randomized controlled trials that met the inclusion criteria, the review authors were quick to encourage further study. "When the possible side effects of standard treatment (hypnotics), taking into account, there is an argument for the clinical use of non-pharmacological treatments. The promising results of light therapy in other populations with timing problems, where to sleep more research on their effectiveness in older adults seems justified. "1
One possible problem is the leading effect of blue light, which has been associated with macular degeneration. However, the manufacturers ensure the safety of their products when used as intended.
Emitting light from Ayo vessels are combined with a specific application
A promising future
Mariana Figueiro PhD, director of the lighting program and research center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, sees an application for targeted therapy, personalized light; It is currently emitting ships exam red light for nurses on the night shift and light masks for teenagers. Light Therapy portable light has the potential, she said. "It's a good way to give encouragement to slide while you are driving, leave the preparation, and so on." She pointed out that the glasses would probably not work with dementia patients who are less likely to be compatible.
Figueiro went on to add that the exposure to healthy light, is more than just a morning dose of light. "It's something awake and alert help of a bright room during the day that you stay. It is a different drive. To really pull a light in the morning need. Especially at half past one in the morning. But I do not recommend to, that to stay in a dark room. "
James Fadden, vice president of Circadian Dream Network, welcomes the dissemination of this new technology with cautious optimism. "Something of interest There are between the circadian community but is not knowing mitigated if it works and the money does not want to turn off when it is not," he said.
People with severe circadian rhythm disorders disillusioned by lack of medical care and products that have not worked in the past. "You had this bad advice and are very skeptical of any treatment," he said.
Fadden even small tables throughout the house used so that you can move during your daily treatment. I would try glasses, he said, if some assurance that the money would be good sense to be output.
The glasses range from $ 69 (for Jazz Visor feeling Bright Light) to $ 299 (for the Re-Timer). The insurance is unlikely users to pay for these costs, according to several sources, although some phototherapy for the treatment of SAD repay. Some products offer trial periods a discount or refund guarantees that users do not try as much of a financial commitment.
In all cases Fadden is happy that more companies seek in design treatments for insomnia and circadian rhythm, were neglected by him long. "The more options we have, the better."
Rose Rimler is deputy editor of the journal Sleep.
reference
- Montgomery P, Dennis J. light therapy for sleep problems in adults aged 60 years. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2002; (2): CD003403.
