{"id":5701,"date":"2024-02-27T13:39:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regen.mediartia.com\/2024\/02\/27\/sport-health-light-stimulation-the-miracle-solution-for-concussions\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:31:14","slug":"sport-health-light-stimulation-the-miracle-solution-for-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regen.mediartia.com\/en\/2024\/02\/27\/sport-health-light-stimulation-the-miracle-solution-for-concussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport\/health: light stimulation, the miracle solution for concussions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I can really see the difference”: in just a few sessions of light treatment, under a futuristic helmet, Marie-Alice Yah\u00e9, former captain of the French rugby team forced to retire after several concussions, has “returned to an almost normal life”.<\/p>\n

Anxiety, claustrophobia, balance problems, irritability, headaches, depression, agoraphobia… Yah\u00e9 hung up his boots almost ten years ago, on medical orders, but the after-effects of the shocks he received on the pitch have long plagued his daily life. <\/p>\n

“I’ve got used to not being able to do certain things anymore,” she testifies. “I live with a sword of Damocles hanging over my head, because I’ve been told that neurological diseases can happen after the age of 40, and I’m afraid of it.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Antoine Burban, a former Stade Fran\u00e7ais international third-rower whose career was also cut short by a series of concussions in 2022, mentions memory loss, difficulty sleeping and constant mood swings.<\/p>\n

“My children, who are 5 and 6, don’t understand how I can go into a rage as soon as there’s something lying around the house,” he recounts, tears in his eyes. “You can’t prepare yourself to have another person in your head overnight.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Yah\u00e9 and Burban began an experimental treatment in December, with weekly 20-minute sessions wearing a helmet that diffuses various light sources, notably infrared, towards the brain.<\/p>\n

“Since then, I’ve returned to a more or less normal life,” says Burban. “It’s not over, I still have symptoms. But I know that I can spend a whole day with my kids without getting angry, that I’m not potentially going to scare them.” <\/p>\n

Now a consultant on Canal+, Yah\u00e9 has also stopped taking the medication she used to take before commenting on matches. She has regained stability and her dizziness has disappeared. <\/p>\n

“I just wish they’d created this ten years ago,” she says. “Looking at the results today, they certainly would have given me my license back. It’s a huge step forward.” <\/p>\n

French handball team goalkeeper Cl\u00e9op\u00e2tre Darleux on February 23, 2024 in Brest (AFP – Fred TANNEAU)<\/p>\n

French handball team goalkeeper Cl\u00e9op\u00e2tre Darleux has also benefited, and is about to return to competition after more than a year without playing. “It was a last-chance protocol, and it worked,” says the Olympic champion with satisfaction. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr Philippe Malafosse, a doctor at Montpellier’s professional rugby club, was the first to come up with the idea of using a technology for concussions, originally developed by the RegenLife company to combat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marie-Alice Yah\u00e9 at the office of neurologist Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Chermann, a specialist in sports concussions, on February 19, 2024 in Paris (AFP – Alain JOCARD).<\/span><\/p>\n

With neurologist Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Chermann in Paris, they treated around fifty athletes and analyzed the evolution of their symptoms and data, particularly visual and postural.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I was perplexed before starting this study, but I have to admit that the initial results are very encouraging,” notes Dr. Chermann, a specialist in concussions in sport.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’re unlocking old files in one session. It’s incredible,” says Dr Malafosse. “We have hypotheses, but no explanations, except that we’ve put functions back into circuit that were inhibited.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Antoine Dupont under the care of French team doctors after suffering a head injury against Namibia during the World Cup, September 21, 2023 in Marseille (AFP – CHRISTOPHE SIMON)<\/span><\/p>\n

Director of RegenLife, a medical technology company founded eight years ago in the Montpellier region, Dr. Patrice Cristofini explains that photobiomodulation (light stimulation) acts on mitochondria to “regenerate diseased cells and calm the neuro-inflammatory mechanism”.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’re sure it works. It’s not invasive, we don’t implant electrodes. It’s not painful and it’s well tolerated, there are no side effects,” he assures us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Convinced that it can “change the game” in the face of “a real public health challenge”, RegenLife hopes to market its funny light-up helmet within the next two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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