BioCare Systems: Pain Relief the Light Way

BioCare Systems, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Sherry Fox and her late husband Joe Pecukonis, for the purpose of designing, developing and marketing innovative health-care devices that use deep-tissue light therapy to decrease pain, accelerate healing and improve quality of life. The company received FDA-clearance in 2004 to market its first non-surgical deep-tissue, infrared-light therapy device, Prem IR818, to be used for the temporary relief/reduction of minor pain or discomfort associated with muscles, joints, arthritis, sprains and strains. LumiWave™ is BioCare Systems' newest FDA-cleared device and was specifically developed and designed as an over-the-counter product for consumers to use at home. Clinical studies conducted for NASA and the Russian Academy of Science have shown that the stimulating effect of photon penetration and cell absorption are critical to biological results: deep-tissue light therapy increases the speed, quality and tensile strength of tissue repair; provides pain relief; resolves inflammation and improves function of damaged neurological tissue. Researchers are currently investigating additional light-therapy applications for spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's disease, stroke, brain tumors and tissue, muscle and organ regeneration, wound treatment, ophthalmic applications and diabetic neuropathy.