Owens was so impressed with the BLT effect, he developed a lightbox manufacturing company called The SunBox Company . My phone was ringing days and nights from desperate people asking if I could help them get a lightbox. Beside lightboxes, the company also distributes light visors and artificial dawn bedside lamp timers . With light therapy, in 3 to 5 days you get a response. Owens claims lightboxes can help shift workers.
Bright light is an extremely effective agent to help people that work shift work.
According to physicist Neil Goldman, PhD, of Enlightened Technology Associates , the results are looking bright. With 50 to 75 percent of the subjects, not only do we get the shift, but we get some improvement in their sleep patterns. Some elderly resist use of the lightbox, says Goldman, but accept wearing glasses for vision correction. As with other forms of light therapy, such inventions could reduce the need for medications, which can be addictive and can carry side effects. Most teenagers, by dint of effort, can correct the condition.