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Red Light Therapy for Fibromyalgia & Widespread Pain: Why the NovaPod 2.0 Is Different

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NovaPod 2.0 full-body red light therapy chamber at InfusaLounge Integrative & Functional Medicine in Allen, Texas, delivering red light, near-infrared, infrared heat, PEMF, terahertz therapy, and supplemental oxygen
The NovaPod 2.0 at InfusaLounge in Allen, Texas. Full-body photobiomodulation combining six evidence-based modalities in a single 30-minute session.

By Melissa Chester, BBA · Medically reviewed by Phyllis J. Gee, MD, FACOG
Published · Last reviewed

When discomfort is widespread, recovery should be whole-body.

If you live with fibromyalgia or with persistent body aches, fatigue, stiffness, slow recovery, or the sense that your whole system is simply “turned up too high” then you already know the frustration of chasing one symptom at a time. A heating pad for the lower back. Massage for the shoulders. A red light panel aimed at the knees. Stretching for the hips. Another appointment for another complaint. And through all of it, the real problem stays exactly where it was: you don’t hurt in just one place.

That mismatch is a big part of why whole-body photobiomodulation (and especially the combination of red and near-infrared light with other noninvasive recovery technologies) has been drawing more serious attention lately, from researchers, from functional medicine practitioners, and from the people actually living with widespread discomfort. At InfusaLounge Integrative & Functional Medicine in Allen, Texas, that approach takes the shape of the NovaPod 2.0: a full-body wellness capsule that brings several recovery modalities into a single session of roughly 30 minutes. In one window, it combines:

  • 660 nm red light
  • 850 nm near-infrared light
  • Infrared heat
  • Rhythmic vibration
  • Pulsed electromagnetic field technology (PEMF)
  • Terahertz energy and Oxygen Ion Air

Instead of moving from one machine to the next, the goal is to open a single, concentrated window of whole-body recovery. But what makes this genuinely interesting for people with fibromyalgia and widespread pain isn’t simply that the NovaPod happens to contain a lot of technologies. It’s what researchers are beginning to discover about whole-body photobiomodulation itself.

First, Why Is Fibromyalgia So Different From Ordinary Localized Pain?

Fibromyalgia isn’t just “pain in more places.” The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases describes it as a chronic condition tied together with widespread pain and tenderness, fatigue, sleep problems, stiffness, cognitive symptoms, and a heightened sensitivity to pain — and research has also identified real differences in how pain-related information gets processed within the nervous system.

That distinction matters more than it might first appear. Sprain an ankle and the source of the discomfort is easy to point to. Fibromyalgia and other forms of widespread chronic discomfort don’t work that way. The experience can pull in a much larger network at once — muscles, connective tissue, sleep, sensory processing, stress physiology, physical conditioning, cellular metabolism, circulation, and the way the nervous system interprets the signals coming in. It’s no wonder, then, that so many people with widespread symptoms find the “one painful body part at a time” model unsatisfying — and it’s a large part of why interest in whole-body approaches keeps growing.

The 2026 Research That Put Photobiomodulation and Fibromyalgia in a New Light

Red light therapy gets talked about pretty casually in the wellness world, but the term researchers actually use is photobiomodulation — PBM for short — and where fibromyalgia is concerned, the evidence has become a good deal more interesting.

A systematic review published in Lasers in Medical Science on June 23, 2026 set out to evaluate photobiomodulation for pain and quality of life in people with fibromyalgia. The authors pulled together seven randomized controlled trials involving 495 participants — most of them women between roughly 30 and 55 years old who had been clinically diagnosed with the condition. Of the studies that evaluated low-level photobiomodulation, six reported significant improvements in pain, and several also reported improvements in quality of life. The authors’ takeaway: photobiomodulation is a promising, drug-free option for short-term improvements in pain and quality of life.

Read the 2026 systematic review of photobiomodulation and fibromyalgia .

Even More Interesting: Researchers Have Studied Whole-Body 660 nm + 850 nm Light

This is where the research starts to speak directly to the NovaPod, which uses 660 nm red light and 850 nm near-infrared light. A randomized, triple-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial in people with fibromyalgia studied a separate whole-body photobiomodulation system built around that same 660 nm and 850 nm pairing. Forty-two participants took part, receiving either active whole-body photobiomodulation or a sham treatment on a consistent schedule:

  • 20 minutes per session
  • 3 sessions per week
  • 4 weeks
  • 12 total sessions

After the four-week course, and again at follow-up, researchers reported significant between-group improvements in pain, along with significant improvements in quality-of-life measurements.

Read the randomized whole-body photobiomodulation trial .

The story didn’t end there. Follow-up research tracked the same participants for as long as six months and continued to report significant between-group differences across several outcomes, including pain at multiple assessment points.

Read the six-month follow-up study .

How the Research Connects to the NovaPod

Those trials used a different whole-body device — the NovoTHOR — with its own power output, irradiance, fluence, geometry, and treatment protocol, so they aren’t studies of the NovaPod itself. What ties them to the NovaPod is specific, and it’s the part worth paying attention to:

The 660 nm red + 850 nm near-infrared wavelength pairing built into the NovaPod has also been used in controlled whole-body fibromyalgia research.

In other words, the light the NovaPod delivers is the same light researchers put to the test in whole-body fibromyalgia trials — which is exactly why those two wavelengths are worth understanding.

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Why 660 nm and 850 nm?

Red and near-infrared light don’t work simply because a patch of tissue gets illuminated. Different wavelengths interact with the body in different ways, and one of the leading mechanisms studied in photobiomodulation centers on the mitochondria — the structures inside your cells responsible for much of the body’s cellular energy production. Researchers have investigated mitochondrial chromophores, cytochrome c oxidase among them, as possible photoacceptors for red and near-infrared light, with the resulting cellular response influencing mitochondrial activity, ATP production, nitric-oxide signaling, oxidative signaling, and a range of downstream cellular processes.

Review research on photobiomodulation mechanisms .

ATP — adenosine triphosphate — is the immediately usable energy currency of the cell. Your muscles need it, your nervous system needs it, tissue repair depends on it, and virtually every energy-dependent process in the body runs on it. That’s a big part of why photobiomodulation has become so interesting in recovery medicine: rather than acting like a medication aimed at a single biochemical target, light behaves as a physical signal capable of influencing cellular activity.

Red Light and Near-Infrared Light Are Complementary

The NovaPod uses both visible red and invisible near-infrared wavelengths, and they play complementary roles. 660 nm red light is most relevant to photobiomodulation of more superficial tissues and the biological processes closer to the skin’s surface. 850 nm near-infrared light penetrates more deeply, which is exactly why near-infrared wavelengths show up so often in research involving muscles, connective tissue, joints, and physical recovery. The point of either one isn’t to overpower the body — it’s to give the body a physical signal its cells can respond to.

Why Whole-Body Light May Matter When Discomfort Is Widespread

Traditional red light panels can be genuinely useful, but they come with an obvious logistical limit: a panel only treats whatever portion of the body is positioned in front of it. If your concern is a single knee, elbow, or shoulder, that localized approach may be exactly right. If your discomfort runs through your neck, shoulders, back, hips, thighs, arms, and feet — and fatigue is part of the picture too — the logic behind treating the whole body at once becomes a lot easier to appreciate.

A feasibility study of whole-body photobiomodulation in people with fibromyalgia offers another reason for the interest. Nineteen participants completed a six-week course, and researchers observed improvements across multiple patient-reported measures — fibromyalgia impact, stiffness, fatigue, pain, sleep, and other symptoms among them — with the mean Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire score improving by roughly 24 points after six weeks. It was an early, small-scale study, but set alongside the randomized trials and the 2026 systematic review, it adds to a picture that keeps pointing the same direction: whole-body photobiomodulation is worth taking seriously.

Read the whole-body PBM feasibility trial .

And photobiomodulation is only one piece of what the NovaPod actually does.

Beyond Red Light: Why NovaPod Uses Multiple Modalities at Once

The NovaPod is built around a straightforward idea:

Different forms of physical energy interact with the body through different mechanisms.

So rather than booking separate sessions for red light, heat, vibration, PEMF, and other wellness technologies, the NovaPod gathers them into one recovery experience — something we think of as modality stacking. Each of these inputs works through a different mechanism, so combining them lets your body take in several complementary signals in a single 30-minute window — no lining up appointment after appointment to get there.

1. Red Light at 660 nm: Cellular Photobiomodulation

Red light supplies one half of the NovaPod’s photobiomodulation system. At roughly 660 nm, it sits within a wavelength range that’s been studied for cellular signaling, skin health, mitochondrial activity, tissue recovery, oxidative balance, and pain-related applications. The key idea, again, isn’t that red light “adds energy” to the body. Photons are absorbed by biological molecules and go on to influence signaling pathways downstream. Think of it less like charging a battery and more like sending cells a biological signal.

2. Near-Infrared Light at 850 nm: Reaching Deeper

Near-infrared light is invisible to the eye, yet it’s one of the most heavily studied regions of the photobiomodulation spectrum. The 850 nm wavelength the NovaPod uses reaches deeper into tissue than visible red light does, which makes the red/near-infrared combination especially interesting for anyone whose concerns aren’t confined to the skin — muscles, joints, connective tissue, physical recovery, widespread soreness. And that pairing is no accident: 660 + 850 nm is the very same wavelength combination used in the randomized whole-body fibromyalgia research described above — a deliberate design choice, not a coincidence.

3. Infrared Heat: Circulation, Relaxation, Stiffness—and Sweat

Now add heat. People have used heat therapy across cultures for centuries, largely because its effects are so immediately understandable — blood vessels respond, skin circulation increases, warm muscles feel different than cold ones, and stiff tissues often feel more comfortable and pliable. The research bears out that intuition to a degree: a systematic review of infrared therapy for chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions identified 13 qualifying human studies, including some involving fibromyalgia, and across that literature researchers observed encouraging effects in several musculoskeletal conditions — though the treatment techniques and study protocols varied quite a bit. The NovaPod simply lets that warming experience happen during the same session as photobiomodulation, rather than as a separate appointment on a different day.

Read the systematic review of infrared therapy and chronic musculoskeletal conditions .

What About Sweating and “Detox”?

The word detox gets thrown around so loosely that it tends to bury a legitimate physiological fact underneath the marketing:

Humans excrete certain substances through sweat.

A systematic review investigating arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury in human sweat identified 122 records and included 24 reports in its evidence synthesis. Researchers found that these toxic elements could be measured in sweat, and reported that — particularly among people with higher exposure or body burden — dermal excretion could in some circumstances match or even exceed urinary excretion. Their conclusion was that sweating deserves consideration as a pathway for toxic-element excretion, while also stressing the need for better therapeutic research and standardized protocols.

Read the systematic review of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury in sweat .

In short, your skin is part of how the body clears things out — it works alongside your liver and kidneys, not in place of them. A good sweat in the NovaPod is one comfortable way to put that pathway to work.

4. Rhythmic Vibration: Giving a Resting Body Mechanical Input

Your lymphatic system doesn’t work the way your cardiovascular system does. There’s no central heart pumping lymph around the body; instead, lymph movement depends on intrinsic lymphatic contractions together with breathing, skeletal-muscle activity, movement, pressure changes, and other mechanical forces. The NovaPod introduces rhythmic vibration while you rest inside the system, and although the sensation itself is gentle, the underlying principle is what’s interesting: the body receives mechanical stimulation without having to perform a workout.

Whole-body vibration has accumulated its own body of fibromyalgia research, too. A 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis in Scientific Reports identified seven randomized controlled trials of whole-body vibration training for people with fibromyalgia. The pooled analysis found statistically significant improvements in Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire scores, stability measures, and six-minute walking performance, with pain the one measure that didn’t reach statistical significance in the pooled data.

Read the 2025 whole-body vibration systematic review and meta-analysis .

Those studies generally relied on exercise-based vibration platforms, which aren’t the same as lying inside the NovaPod. Even so, the evidence reinforces a broader point worth holding onto: mechanical stimulation is biologically meaningful.

5. PEMF: A Different Kind of Physical Signal

Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy — PEMF — delivers changing electromagnetic fields to the body. The input here isn’t light or heat but electromagnetic, and it’s been investigated across a wide range of rehabilitation and musculoskeletal research, and the fibromyalgia research is still taking shape. One randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled study of 56 women reported improvements after a course of low-frequency PEMF.

View the randomized PEMF fibromyalgia study .

A larger crossover study of 108 women, on the other hand, later found that pain decreased during both the active and the sham treatment periods, with no statistically significant advantage for the active treatment.

View the larger PEMF crossover trial .

In the NovaPod, PEMF plays a supporting role — one more noninvasive input working alongside the light, heat, and vibration rather than carrying the session on its own.

6. Terahertz Energy: An Emerging Frontier in Biophysics

Terahertz energy sits in the region of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwave and infrared frequencies. It’s non-ionizing, and it has attracted growing biomedical interest because terahertz frequencies interact with water and other biological structures in unusual ways. Researchers are actively exploring it for biomedical imaging, spectroscopy, tissue characterization, and therapeutic applications — and while that therapeutic research is younger than the photobiomodulation field, the underlying science is genuinely intriguing.

We include terahertz as an emerging biophysical modality — one of the frontier technologies functional medicine tends to explore early, before it reaches the mainstream. It’s part of what puts the NovaPod a step ahead of a standard light panel.

7. Oxygen Ion Air and the Open-Head Experience

The NovaPod also includes a feature the manufacturer calls Oxygen Ion Air, which shouldn’t be confused with supplemental medical oxygen or hyperbaric oxygen therapy. It pairs naturally with one of the pod’s most distinctive design choices: your head stays outside the capsule while your body rests inside the treatment chamber. For anyone who dislikes enclosed spaces, that one detail can make the whole experience far more approachable. You breathe normally, your face is never enclosed, and you can talk with the team the entire time — all while your body receives the pod’s light, heat, vibration, PEMF, and other modalities. For someone living with heightened sensory sensitivity, or simply someone who hates feeling confined, that design choice can matter a great deal.

Six Modalities. One Recovery Window. About 30 Minutes.

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What Is the Real Advantage of Combining Multiple Modalities?

The advantage isn’t that six is some magic number. It’s that a single recovery window can expose the body to several different physical signals at once. Picture what’s actually happening during a NovaPod session:

  • Photons provide red and near-infrared photobiomodulation.
  • Heat creates thermal stress, vasodilation, relaxation, and sweating.
  • Vibration provides mechanical stimulation.
  • PEMF provides an electromagnetic input.
  • Terahertz technology adds an emerging frequency-based modality.
  • The open-head design makes the whole experience easier to tolerate for many people.

The practical appeal is easy to state:

You don’t need multiple separate appointments to experience multiple recovery modalities.

The NovaPod brings them into one session of about 30 minutes.

NovaPod vs. a Standard Red Light Panel

Red light panels are useful tools in their own right. The NovaPod is simply built for a different kind of experience — and the contrast is easiest to see side by side.

Feature Typical Red Light Panel NovaPod 2.0
Red light Often Yes — 660 nm
Near-infrared light Often Yes — 850 nm
Whole-body format Depends on panel size and positioning Yes
Infrared heat Usually separate Integrated
Heat-induced sweating Usually no Available depending on settings and individual response
Rhythmic vibration No Integrated
PEMF No Integrated
Terahertz energy No Integrated
Oxygen Ion Air No Integrated
Head remains outside Not applicable Yes
Experience Primarily photobiomodulation Multi-modal whole-body recovery

If all you want is red light aimed at one body part, a panel may be perfectly appropriate. If your goal is whole-body exposure with several recovery modalities delivered in the same session, that’s where the NovaPod becomes a genuinely different tool.

Why This May Be Especially Interesting for People With Widespread Discomfort

There’s something uniquely frustrating about widespread symptoms. You wake up stiff, your shoulders are tight, your legs feel heavy, your lower back aches, and sleep didn’t leave you feeling restored — you haven’t even exercised yet and your body already feels depleted. Then someone points a small treatment device at one elbow. That disconnect is a large part of why people with widespread concerns are so naturally drawn to a whole-body experience.

The NovaPod never asks you to decide which six inches of your body deserve attention today. The entire experience is designed around the body as a connected system — and for people living with fibromyalgia, persistent soreness, fatigue, slow recovery, or generalized stiffness, that difference can be a meaningful one.

The Nervous System Matters Too

Pain isn’t generated solely in sore tissue. It’s an experience the nervous system produces as the brain weighs information arriving from all over the body — and in fibromyalgia, research suggests those pain-processing pathways can become unusually sensitive, with tenderness, sensory sensitivity, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and cognitive symptoms often traveling alongside the widespread discomfort. That’s exactly why the experience of a therapy is relevant, not just its mechanism. Thirty minutes of passive warmth, full-body light, rhythmic vibration, and stillness is a very different thing from another strenuous appointment. No workout is required. No needles are involved in the NovaPod session itself. There’s no traditional post-procedure downtime. You lie down and let the session happen. For some people, reliably carving out a stretch of time in which the body gets warmth, comfortable sensory input, reduced activity, and intentional recovery becomes a genuinely valuable part of a broader wellness routine.

What Does a NovaPod Session at InfusaLounge Feel Like?

Your NovaPod session at InfusaLounge is meant to be simple. You lie comfortably in the capsule with your head resting outside, and the temperature and intensity can be adjusted to suit you. Red and near-infrared light operate throughout the chamber as warmth gradually builds, and rhythmic vibration adds a gentle mechanical sensation while the pod’s other modalities run alongside it.

People approach it differently, and that’s the point. Some prefer a lower heat level because their main goals are photobiomodulation and relaxation; others enjoy a stronger heat and a real sweat. It doesn’t have to be an endurance event. The aim is to land on a setting that fits your comfort, your goals, and how your body responds.

How Often Should You Use Whole-Body Red Light Therapy?

There’s no single schedule that fits every person or every goal, but the research does give us a useful reference point. The randomized whole-body fibromyalgia trial mentioned earlier used treatment three times per week for four weeks — 12 sessions in total. More broadly, repeated exposure is far more common across photobiomodulation studies than a one-session-only approach, which makes sense given that PBM is generally studied as a biological stimulus delivered repeatedly over time rather than as a single, one-and-done event. At InfusaLounge, session frequency can be tailored around your goals, your schedule, your tolerance, and the other pieces of your wellness or functional medicine plan.

Why InfusaLounge Chose the NovaPod 2.0

InfusaLounge isn’t a stand-alone red light studio. We’re an integrative and functional medicine practice, and that shapes how we think about wellness technology in the first place. Patients rarely walk in describing a single, isolated issue. Far more often, they describe combinations:

  • Fatigue and poor recovery
  • Pain and disrupted sleep
  • Brain fog and stress
  • Hormonal symptoms and low energy
  • Stiffness and reduced activity tolerance
  • Metabolic concerns and inflammation
  • Widespread discomfort that never seems to have one simple explanation

That’s why a whole-body, multi-modal platform fits so naturally into the way we work. The NovaPod can live inside a much larger conversation — one about nutrition, hormones, metabolic health, nutrient status, sleep, recovery, inflammation, functional testing, and individualized care — because the most useful question often isn’t:

“Which machine should I use?”

It’s:

“Why do I feel this way in the first place — and what combination of approaches makes the most sense for me?”

That larger question is the heart of the functional medicine conversation.

Learn more about functional medicine at InfusaLounge .

Who Might Explore NovaPod at InfusaLounge?

People come to whole-body photobiomodulation and recovery therapy for all kinds of reasons. A NovaPod session may be worth exploring if your wellness goals include supporting:

  • Whole-body recovery
  • Muscle comfort after activity
  • Healthy cellular energy
  • Circulation
  • Relaxation
  • Exercise recovery
  • Skin health
  • A healthy inflammatory response
  • Movement and lymphatic physiology
  • Stress recovery
  • Sleep and recovery routines
  • Healthy aging and longevity
  • Sweating and natural elimination pathways
  • General wellness while living with widespread discomfort

If you live with fibromyalgia or another diagnosed medical condition, please keep working with your healthcare professionals. The NovaPod is a wellness and recovery modality — a complement to appropriate medical care, never a replacement for it.

Frequently Asked Questions About NovaPod and Red Light Therapy

Can NovaPod treat fibromyalgia?

InfusaLounge doesn’t present the NovaPod as a cure or a stand-alone medical treatment for fibromyalgia. What makes the topic worth discussing is the growing body of research on photobiomodulation in people living with fibromyalgia — including randomized controlled trials and a 2026 systematic review. Researchers have also studied whole-body PBM using the same 660 nm + 850 nm wavelength combination built into the NovaPod, though those trials used a different device. If you live with fibromyalgia, our team is happy to talk through how wellness modalities like photobiomodulation might fit alongside — not replace — your existing medical care.

Is NovaPod just a red light therapy bed?

No. Red and near-infrared photobiomodulation are central to it, but the NovaPod pairs those wavelengths with infrared heat, vibration, PEMF, terahertz technology, and Oxygen Ion Air in one whole-body system.

Does my head go inside the NovaPod?

No. Your body rests within the therapeutic chamber while your head stays outside — something many people find much more comfortable than being fully enclosed.

Will I sweat?

That depends on the heat setting and how your body responds. The NovaPod’s adjustable heat lets the experience range from comfortable warmth to a stronger sweat.

Is sweating really a form of detoxification?

Sweat is a real excretory pathway — human studies have detected substances including arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury in it. How much is excreted varies a great deal based on individual exposure, physiology, hydration, collection method, and other factors. We view sweating as one part of the body’s natural elimination physiology, not as a substitute for liver, kidney, or gastrointestinal function.

Is 850 nm near-infrared light the same as infrared heat?

No — and it’s a common mix-up. Near-infrared photobiomodulation at 850 nm involves photons interacting with biological tissue, whereas infrared heat is used primarily to create a thermal effect. The NovaPod incorporates both, so photobiomodulation and heat exposure can happen within the same session.

How quickly will I notice something?

Experiences vary from one person to the next. Some people notice warmth, relaxation, or a subjective shift in how their body feels after a single session, while broader wellness goals may take repeated visits. Clinical photobiomodulation studies typically use a series of exposures rather than a single session, which is a big reason consistency tends to be emphasized.

Do I need a consultation before booking NovaPod?

Not every therapy at InfusaLounge requires a full functional medicine consultation. Appropriate screening is done before therapy, and the team can let you know whether additional clinical evaluation makes sense for you.

Book an appointment or therapy session online .

The Bigger Idea: Stop Thinking One Symptom at a Time

Modern medicine is extraordinarily good at isolating variables, and sometimes that’s exactly what a situation calls for. But anyone living with a complex, widespread symptom pattern comes to understand the limits of treating the human body as a collection of unrelated parts. Your mitochondria don’t exist independently of your muscles. Your muscles don’t exist independently of circulation. Circulation doesn’t exist independently of movement. Movement doesn’t exist independently of pain. Pain doesn’t exist independently of the nervous system. And the nervous system doesn’t exist independently of sleep, stress, metabolism, hormones, nutrition, and the rest of your physiology.

That interconnectedness sits at the heart of functional medicine — and it’s also what makes a system like the NovaPod interesting. Not because one machine can fix everything, but because it creates a chance to deliver multiple complementary physical inputs to the whole body during the same recovery window: light, heat, mechanical stimulation, electromagnetic input, and rest. Call it roughly 30 minutes devoted to recovery, instead of another 30 minutes spent pushing through discomfort.

When Discomfort Is Widespread, Think Whole-Body

The science of photobiomodulation has moved well beyond theory. Randomized controlled fibromyalgia studies exist. Whole-body studies exist. A 2026 systematic review has now evaluated seven randomized trials involving 495 participants with fibromyalgia. And perhaps most relevant of all for NovaPod users, the 660 nm + 850 nm wavelength combination built into the NovaPod has been used in controlled whole-body fibromyalgia research.

That makes whole-body photobiomodulation a technology genuinely worth your attention — and the NovaPod doesn’t stop at light. At InfusaLounge Integrative & Functional Medicine, it combines red and near-infrared photobiomodulation with heat, vibration, PEMF, terahertz technology, and Oxygen Ion Air in one whole-body wellness experience.

Six modalities. One recovery window. One body.

If you’re tired of thinking about your wellness one painful area at a time, come see what a whole-body approach actually feels like.

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InfusaLounge Integrative & Functional Medicine is located in Allen, Texas, convenient to McKinney, Plano, Frisco, Fairview, Lucas, and the surrounding Collin County and North Dallas communities.

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Medical disclaimer: This article is provided for educational purposes and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. NovaPod 2.0 is discussed here as a wellness and recovery modality. Research cited in this article includes studies of photobiomodulation and other physical modalities; studies performed with devices other than NovaPod should not be interpreted as clinical trials of NovaPod itself. Individual responses vary. People who are pregnant, have implanted electronic devices, photosensitivity, significant medical conditions, or other health concerns should discuss appropriate precautions with a qualified healthcare professional before beginning a new wellness therapy.


About the Authors

Medically reviewed by Phyllis J. Gee, MD, FACOG. Dr. Phyllis J. Gee is Medical Director of InfusaLounge Integrative & Functional Medicine. A board-certified OB/GYN and Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, she completed her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition at Cornell University, her MD at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is an ADAPT-trained Functional Medicine practitioner (Kresser Institute) with more than 30 years of clinical experience. Dr. Gee’s research on transcervical fibroid ablation has been published in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and she served as a site investigator in the FDA-reviewed SONATA Pivotal IDE clinical trial. She has been cited in The New York Times. NPI 1417953241 · Texas Medical License H1583. View full bio →

Written by Melissa Chester, BBA. Founder and Director of Operations, InfusaLounge Integrative & Functional Medicine. A healthcare operations leader who built InfusaLounge from the ground up in 2018, with direct operational oversight of every clinical program. View full bio →

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