Monthly Archives: March 2014

At the NZ2008 laser meeting  we debated  LLLT nomenclature, many scientists prefer to call it Photobiomodulation (and I agree this is the best name). Laser Biostimulation was used for some time by the American Society for Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, who recently adopted Photobiomodulation instead. Pubmed have chosen LLLT (stands for Low Level Laser Therapy) as the MeSH term (MeSH stands for Medical Subject Heading) however they have used that label for almost every form of medical laser treatment (low level or otherwise). Low Level Laser Therapy was a term coined by Oshiro and Calderhead back on the 1980’s.

Here are some words and phrases I have collected over the years:

Bioregulating Laser
Biostimulating Laser
Broad Band Radiation Therapy
Class IV laser Therapy
Cold Laser Therapy
Diode Laser Therapy
He-Ne Laser therapy
Helium-neon laser irradiation
HILT (High Intensity Laser Therapy)
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