Knowledge to help you decide

Understanding the technology is part of care.

Clear, careful, evidence-informed information about what high-intensity laser therapy may offer—and its limitations.

High-intensity laser therapy: what does it actually do in the body?

Learn how high-intensity laser therapy interacts with tissue, what photobiomodulation means, and what the evidence can—and cannot—tell us.

Clinical applications

These articles explain what studies report; they do not replace an individual medical assessment.

A careful look at clinical studies of high-intensity laser therapy for knee osteoarthritis, including what they suggest and what they do not prove.

What a randomized study found when high-intensity laser therapy was compared with ultrasound for chronic shoulder pain—and the study's limitations.

Learn what carpal tunnel syndrome is and what research says about laser therapy for pain, tingling, and hand function.