Since you mentioned it, I decided to Google it to see what it is. No sooner had I typed "Light relief" into my Google search box, than a drop down menu appeared. The top item in the menu was "Light Relief scam". Fourth on the menu was "light Relief complaints". Eighth on the list was "Light Relief Therapy scam." This tells me that this product is acquiring a very bad reputation.

I'm glad you like it. I hope it's worth what you paid for it. It simply emits heat (infra-red radiation is heat!). So you could have gotten the same warming effect running a heating pad, or a couple of hot water bottles around your body, and saved a bunch of bucks. The Light Relief device costs almost $80. Plus there is a re-stocking fee of 10-30% (according to Amazon.com reviews the restocking fee has varied!) if you decide to send it back. Other people have said the company wouldn't take it back at all after a 30 trial. Another person complained that even though she had paid for the item totally in the first payment, instead of just 50% up front, she was still billed the next month for "the second" half of the cost. She could not complain to the company, because they had inconveniently listed an incorrect telephone number. Yet another person complained that the device broke within two weeks and the company billed her for automatic delivery of joint supplement, which she had never authorized. Other people have also complained that their bank cards were charged also for numerous unordered items, so this seems to not be unusual. Another person said the company also charged $29.38 for shipping and handling, though it cost $9.00 to mail it back. Another person said, "Their costumer service department will pretend they can't hear you, hang up on you, say that they're going to help you and leave you hanging, etc." Etc., etc. It goes on and on. Go read the reviews at Amazon.com and notice that while 21 of the ratings were 5 star, 18 were 1 star ratings! That's NOT good!

Sorry, but I'll pass on this one, but I'm glad you you like it since you bought it.

Buy the expensive toxic pharmaceutical solutions is that your solution gardener? Listen to Gardener21, She's the expert here and has a PHD and all and works in the great and powerful medical industrial complex.

This product works. It was recommended to me twenty years ago by a veterinarian that used it at a race track and then because it worked so well started using it on herself and it was recently FDA approved something that should please Gardener21. It is cheap and Ive seen it turn my husbands black and blue mark to normal after one use.
. But Gandener21 would rather go the toxic route

O.D. not Ph.D., thank you. A primary health care doctor, certified in the use of diagnostic and therapeutic drugs. With earlier biochemical research at both the Agricultural Research Service and both the Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases and the National Eye Institute. Senior paper done on the affects of Lupus and its treatment on the Eyes. Also 5 years of work in the Bureau of Disability Insurance at SSA sandwiched in there between college and professional school. Never worked as a consultant, though. Never any conflict of interest. Thank you very much!

And, no the toxic drugs are not what I have resorted to when I can otherwise avoid it. I take a mutivitamin, calcium + magnesium supplement, additional vitamin D, lutein (my aunt had macular degeneration), curcumin, and alpha lipoic acid.

I take no steroids, plaquenil or other prescription immunosuppressants. I take no prescription pain medications. I take levothyroxin only because I would die if I didn't. I take Lunesta because my pain is so bad that otherwise I can't sleep. But first I tried double strength chamomile tea, and it wasn't sufficient! I can handle the pain in the daytime, but at night, I can't. I take pravastatin because my cholesterol had zoomed out of sight, despite a low fat diet. It's STILL high. I am hoping the recent addition of curcumin will help to bring it down. Curcumin has other documented benefits, too in anticlotting (I have mildly positive anticardiolipin antibodies), inflammation, monoclonal gammopathy (which I also have), and possibly in scleroderma (an in vitro study recently showed it caused scleroderma lung fibroblasts to self destruct while sparing normal ones). Plus it has extremely low toxictiy.

I'm afraid that a penchant for toxic drugs is not something that you can hang on me, Julie. I go for the non-toxic things whenever I can.

You really should try it if you like non-toxic solutions then before you slam a product that has been approved by the FDA for THAT purpose.

Didn't you say you hold them in high esteem Gardener21? I don't but you can't have it both ways either you agree that the all knowing and powerful FDA knew what it was doing when they approved this product for pain or you don't agree with the FDA and this product is crap. Which is it?

Here's a quote from the Light Relief web site:

"These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
This product is not intended to diagnose, cure or prevent any disease."

And if you check the web site carefully you'll see that they do not make any claims except basically that it feels good. (Yes, heat feels good.) Yes, they post "testimonials" but that is not the same as making any claims themselves. And because they are not making claims of medical efficacy, FDA has ruled that this is NOT a medical device, and they do not have to prove any efficacy.

If you like it, use it. Me, I'll stick with my heating pad. Much cheaper.

According to their website the all powerful FDA has allowed them to make this statement regarding their product.

Correctly used as instructed by the manufacturer, the FDA has voted it to be safe and effective for temporary relief of the body and aids in muscle healing. The bodys range of motions will be improved temporarily due to the relaxation and pain relief, brought on by the Light Relief Therapy application, which offers a temporarily increase in the blood circulation in the body. The more the unit is used, the more the pain will depart the area and the muscles will carry on relaxing and becoming more flexible as time passes by.

http://www.lightrelieftherapy.net/

It works for me and I didn't pay $80 for mine I paid $40 for one. If that is something you consider expensive for years of use (I've had mine for three years) then I really do feel sorry for you and I do understand how difficult it can be to live on disability.

But once again for me this product works and I am impressed with it's impact on my life at such a cheap price for me but again I do understand that $40 can be an expense so cannot afford.

Your above quote comes from http://www.lightrelieftherapy.net/ and was posted on Oct. 22, 2009.

However, according to http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/23/health/he-skeptic23 , and I quote, "The Food and Drug Administration approved Light Relief for marketing in 2007. The agency didn't express any opinion about whether the device actually worked to relieve pain. Instead, it merely decided that the product was "substantially equivalent" to products already on the market.

I repeat, "The Agency didn't express any opinion about whether the device actually worked to relieve pain."

That is why in 2010, the Light Relief company added to the very bottom of its main page at http://www.lightrelief.com/ the following disclaimer in rather fine print:

"These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
This product is not intended to diagnose, cure or prevent any disease."

That last sentence means it is NOT claimed as a medical device, and in this way it avoids the usual need to prove safety and effectiveness that actual medical devices must prove through FDA.

Now I really don't want to argue about this any more. If you think it feels good, use it! I just want our readership to be aware that FDA has NOT ruled on the safety and effectiveness of this particular rather expensive device.

It always pays to read the fine print. It's there for a reason.

That's assuming you trust anything that comes out of the FDA garderer and I don't. I'd like to ask again are you paid to write by any organization and if so please disclose it now.

By the way there are people that are paid to write articles that are favorable or promote the agenda of certain organizations that pay them to do just that.

I have tried this treatment and I like it. It works for me a lot better than a heating pad and I used it a lot this week and can do my housework today. I'm having a good day. But you have to ask yourself why you continuously attack anything alternative to your pro-medical-industrial-complex views.

I'm on here for support and to share my experience, strength and hope. You need not attack me each time I post something as benign as Light Relief and that, if fact, may even help. I'm going to post something on vitamin D and the sun and how good that is for us. Will you attack that as well?

No I am not paid to write anything for anyone! I told you before that I am retired due to poor health. And I mean fully retired. I have zero employment or self employment income, I am not invested in any drug companies, and before you start accusing me of doing free favors for people of FDA, I'll just tell you that I no longer know ANYONE at FDA. So just quit it with the personal attacks.

I am trying to remain civil, but you are not making it easy. I believe plugging name brands on this site constitutes SPAM. And there is a rule against SPAM on this site.

If people plug products on this site, in defiance of the anti-SPAM rules, I will indeed give the cons concerning those products as I see fit in order to give balanced perspective. You however, have responded by becoming totally rude, and attacking ME PERSONALLY again and again.

I have no financial interest in Light Relief. It's a product that works for me and I thought I would share what I found to be helpful. You on the other hand continue to find bad things to say about anything I post. Please stop it now. Thanks.

Actually, I'd enjoy hearing about Vitamin D. I am taking it, myself, and the doc monitors my blood levels of it since I have been terribly deficient in it in the past.

I'll be the first person to admit I probably don't get out into the sun enough. But I am also a bit wary about skin cancer since I am fair skinned. I've detected basal cell cancers on a lot of my fair-skinned patients, and my husband who is also fair-skinned has also been waging a battle against a pre-cancer on the side of his face, which keeps trying to spread. His uncle had several basal cell carcinomas removed.