Patent attributes
A wearable for providing light therapy to a wearer includes at least one fabric panel having an inner surface that when the wearable is worn is configured to face a wearer's skin and an outer surface opposite the inner surface and at least one side-emitting optical fiber affixed to at least one of the inner surface and the outer surface. The side-emitting optical fiber is optically connectable with an optical fiber light source and configured to project light having a therapeutic wavelength toward a wearer of the wearable. The wearable can include at least one non-optical fiber light source affixed to the fabric panel so as to project light toward a wearer of the wearable. The non-optical fiber light source can have a respective side-emitting optical fiber of the at least one side-emitting optical fiber on opposite sides of the at respective non-optical fiber light source.
