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Correspondence to Author: Gehard Lischer, 

Department of Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Graz, Austria.

Introduction: The SCI and PubMed databases contain an ever-growing amount of studies on laser acupuncture. As of October 20, 2018, there were 921 publications on this subject overall in PubMed, the most significant medical database (www. pubmed.gov). But as of right now, there isn’t a standard officially recognized definition of laser acupuncture. At the 12th International WALT (World Association for photobiomoduLation Therapy) Congress in Nice on October 5, 2018, a consensus session led by Prof. Gerhard Litscher defined and addressed the general definition of laser acupuncture (Figure 1).in the French countryside. The chairman of the meeting, all of the invited speakers, and 28 international specialists all concurred. The proposal was among other things presented by the chairman during a second consensus meeting on October 6, 2018, and it was also approved by the entire WALT executive board, which is led by professors Praveen Arany, President of WALT and Co-Chair of the Congress, and Rene-Jean Bensadoun. This is how it is defined.

Keywords:   laser acupuncture; photo acupuncture; definition; photobiomodulation.

Citation:

Gehard Lischer. Definition of All Types of Photo Acupuncture and Laser Acupuncture. The Annals of Internal Medicine 2024.