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Red Light Pad with Neck Support
Named after Valles Marineris· 13.9°S 300.8°E
Your neck and back hold you up all day, on the side of you that faces the floor. Valles lights them while you lie still.
Red and near-infrared LEDs from your neck to your lower back.
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Valles pad · controller · power adapter · user manual
Orders ship within 1–3 business days. Standard US shipping is free and tracked (5–8 business days).
Request a return within 30 days of receiving your order by emailing info@tharsyn.com. Conditions are in our refund policy.
Published trials of red and near-infrared light, with the journal and the year.
fewer wrinkles at best, measured after 4 weeks of red and near-infrared light
76 adults, two sessions a week. Measured wrinkles dropped by up to 36% and skin elasticity rose by up to 19%, and biopsies showed more collagen and elastic fibers.
Lee et al. · Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B · 2007
inflammatory macrophage markers came down under red and near-infrared light
A Harvard Medical School review calls lower inflammation one of the most reproducible effects of this light, in joints, injuries, lungs and the brain.
Hamblin · AIMS Biophysics · 2017
nm near-infrared, used during 3 months of treadmill training
Twenty women did the same workouts twice a week, and ten of them did it under 850 nm LEDs. The light group’s cellulite treatment cut saddlebag and thigh measurements.
Paolillo et al. · Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy · 2011
more growth in human skin cells under NASA-built LEDs
The same NASA-backed work measured faster wound healing for crew aboard a U.S. Navy submarine, and over 40% improvement in Navy SEAL training injuries.
Whelan et al. · Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine & Surgery · 2001
Your lats are the widest muscles in your body, and the muscles along your spine hold you upright all day. They get the least attention because you can’t see them.
A pad meets them exactly where they already are: underneath you.
Charging your phone on a wireless pad. You don’t hold anything up to the light. You just lie on it.
Gray’s Anatomy, 42nd edition
What the light does
Light before exercise improved performance and lowered creatine kinase in pooled controlled trials.
Leal-Junior et al. · 2015Reviews of light applied to muscle around exercise report better performance and less fatigue than placebo light.
Ferraresi, Huang & Hamblin · 2016Red and near-infrared light can free nitric oxide inside cells. Nitric oxide relaxes blood vessels.
Hamblin · 2018Light has a dose curve: too little does nothing, the right dose helps, too much can cancel the benefit.
Huang et al. · 2009Your neck and back muscles live on the side of you that faces the floor. Valles puts red and near-infrared light under them while you lie still, with your neck on the roll.
No panel to stand in front of and nothing to hold. Set the timer, close your eyes, and get up when it switches off.
Absorbed in the top layers of your skin. The wavelength used in most of the skin studies.
Invisible to you, and it travels further into tissue, toward muscle and joints.
Ash et al. · Lasers in Medical Science · 2017
Salon-level red light at home. No appointment, no commute.
Three ways to put something warm under a sore back.
| Feature |  Valles
|
Wall panel | Heating pad |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light | 660 + 850 nm | Red + near-IR | None, heat only |
| Coverage | Neck to lower back | One side, at a distance | One spot |
| Position | Lying down | Standing | Lying or sitting |
| Works through | Light absorbed in your cells | Light, if close enough | Warming the surface |
| Storage | Lies flat | Wall or floor space | Drawer |
Myth vs truth
If 20 minutes is good, an hour is better.
Light follows a biphasic dose response: too little does nothing, the right dose helps, and too much can cancel the benefit. It’s watering a plant, not filling a pool. Use the timer.
Huang et al. · Dose-Response · 2009Red light only reaches the surface.
Visible red is absorbed mostly in the skin, but near-infrared at 850 nm travels further, toward muscle. That’s why Valles pairs both: one for the surface, one for what’s underneath.
Ash et al. · Lasers Med Sci · 2017A mat is just a panel lying down.
A panel shines across a gap. A mat has no gap. Light obeys the inverse-square law, so closing the distance from two feet to almost nothing changes how much of it actually reaches you.
Inverse-square lawThe whole lineup, the way you’ll use it.
The research
Every claim on this page points to a published paper. Here they are.
Pooled controlled trials: light applied before exercise improved performance and lowered creatine kinase, a blood marker of muscle damage.
Leal-Junior et al. · Lasers in Medical Science · 2015Reviewed trials of light applied to muscle around exercise. Many reported better performance and less fatigue than placebo light.
Ferraresi, Huang & Hamblin · Journal of Biophotonics · 2016Modeled light passing through skin and tissue. Longer red and near-infrared wavelengths reached deeper than shorter colors.
Ash et al. · Lasers in Medical Science · 2017Describes how red and near-infrared light can free nitric oxide from cytochrome c oxidase. Nitric oxide relaxes blood vessels.
Hamblin · Photochemistry and Photobiology · 2018FAQ
Let the timer end the session so it switches off on its own, and don’t sleep on it with the power on. It’s a 20-minute session, not a mattress.
Fabric blocks a lot of light. For your back, lie on it with bare skin where you want the light.
Lying face-up, your eyes point away from the LEDs, so most people don’t. They’re in the box for when you turn over to light your front.
It lies flat under a bed or against a wall. Wipe the surface with a soft, slightly damp cloth after use.
Yes. Request a return within 30 days of receiving it by emailing info@tharsyn.com. It needs to be unused and in its original packaging; the refund policy has the details.
Mars fact
Fine Martian dust spreads red light across the whole sky and lets blue through around the setting sun. We kept the red.
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