Special Issue: Laser Acupuncture
Guest Editors
Gerhard Litscher, MSc, PhD, MDsc
Head of the Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine
and the Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
and Chairman of the TCM Research Center Graz
Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Im Quah-Smith, MD, PhD
Adjunct lecturer, School for Womens and Childrens Health, UNSW Medicine, Randwick, Australia
Auricular Medicine, Centre for Wellbeing, The Mater Hospital, Wollstonecraft, Australia
Roseville Wellness Group, Roseville, Australia
Dear Acupuncture Community:
It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue on Laser Acupuncture guest-edited by Dr. Litscher and Dr. Quah-Smith.
The editors invite manuscript submissions related to high-level acupuncture research and/or acupuncture practice and of significant interest to the readership of Medical Acupuncture.
Manuscript topics should be related to Laser Acupuncture or Laser and Photobiomodulation.
See suggested areas of coverage below. Manuscript types may be original research, review articles, perspectives, commentaries, or letters to the editor.
- Laser in auricular medicine
- Laser in body acupuncture
- Laser versus needle modalities for acupuncture
- Best wavelengths for laser acupuncture
- Quantify dosages and correlate to progress in treatments
- Laser acupuncture and side-effects
- Different devices for laser acupuncture
- Laser vs. LED (light-emitting diodes)
- Mechanism of action in Laser Acupuncture
- Technical parameters in Laser Acupuncture
- Optimal repetition regime in Laser Acupuncture
- High and low responders Laser Acupuncture
- Is the laser modality similar to moxibustion physiologically?
- Gender-specific effects?
- Laser and Photobiomodulation (PBM) current investigations
- Emerging trends
Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The deadline for manuscript submission is May 15, 2022.
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