System and process for utilizing energy for neuroregeneration

A process for providing neuroprotection or neuroregeneration to biological tissue, comprising the steps of:

• providing a pulsed energy having energy parameters including a wavelength or frequency, a duty cycle of less than 10% and a pulse train duration of less than one second;
• applying the pulsed energy to neural elements of a target tissue having a chronic progressive disease or a risk of having a chronic progressive disease to provide neuroprotection or neuroregeneration to the neural elements of the target tissue;
• wherein the pulsed energy parameters are selected so as to apply the pulsed energy to the target tissue for a total pulse duration of less than one second and raise a target tissue temperature between six and eleven degrees Celsius at least during application of the pulsed energy to the target tissue while maintaining the average temperature rise of the target tissue at or below a predetermined level of six degrees Celsius or less for several minutes so as to not permanently damage the target tissue.