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Getting an X-ray on your hands and feet or undergoing phototherapy or light therapy can increase your risk of developing black lines on your nails.
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Lindsay Curtis, Health, 10 Oct. 2024
What is the difference between UVA and UVB/phototherapy light treatments?
—Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 15 July 2024
Tanning beds and phototherapy are not the same and the risks of tanning beds remain unequivocal.
—Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 15 July 2024
Spain’s base camp in Donaueschingen has a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, a cryogenic chamber, and a phototherapy bed to help speed muscular recovery after practice or a game.
—James Robson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
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Lindsay Curtis, Health, 10 Oct. 2024
What is the difference between UVA and UVB/phototherapy light treatments?
—Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 15 July 2024
Tanning beds and phototherapy are not the same and the risks of tanning beds remain unequivocal.
—Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 15 July 2024
Spain’s base camp in Donaueschingen has a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, a cryogenic chamber, and a phototherapy bed to help speed muscular recovery after practice or a game.
—James Robson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
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“Phototherapy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phototherapy. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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phototherapy
noun
pho·to·ther·a·py
-ˈther-ə-pē 
plural phototherapies
: the application of light for therapeutic purposes
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