Photobiomodulation for Musculoskeletal & Sports Injury Pain
Join us online to explore how photobiomodulation can ease musculoskeletal and sports injury pain!
Photobiomodulation for Musculoskeletal & Sports Injury Pain
If you're a medical or allied health professional, student or research academic please join us online for an exciting event all about photobiomodulation and how it helps tackle musculoskeletal and sports injury pain from a clinical perspective. Our guest presenter is Professor Liisa Laakso, principal research fellow (Allied Health) Mater Research Institute, past WALT president and European Medical Laser Association Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient. In this session we will explore:
- The pathophysiological effects of acute sports injury
- A definition of pain
- Evidence for the use of PBM in acute sports injury
- Evidence for the use of PBM in musculoskeletal pain management
About Our Guest Presenter
Dr Liisa Laakso is Principal Research Fellow (Allied Health) at the Mater Research Institute, Brisbane; Honorary Associate Professor at The University of Queensland Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences; and Adjunct Professor of Physiotherapy in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Prof Laakso was the first Australian to complete a PhD in the field of laser therapy. In 2020, Prof Laakso was recognised by the European Medical Laser Association with a lifetime achievement award.
Prof Laakso’s research focuses on:
- the role of photobiomodulation (PBM) therapy for pain, lymphoedema management, tissue healing, inflammation and neurodegeneration in a range of non-malignant and malignant laboratory and clinical models and populations;
- symptom control and prevention in chronic disease, and in recovery after cancer, and in palliative care.
Her work includes one of the largest ever funded studies of peri-operative PBM in people undergoing total knee replacement surgery.
Prof Laakso is an executive committee member of the Australian Medical Photobiomodulation Association (AMPA), and past-President of the World Association for Laser Therapy (WALT). Prof Laakso is a past Vice-President of the International Society for Electrophysical Agents in Physical Therapy (an official sub-group of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy). She is also on the editorial board of the journal Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine and Laser Surgery.
Join us online to explore how photobiomodulation can ease musculoskeletal and sports injury pain!
Photobiomodulation for Musculoskeletal & Sports Injury Pain
If you're a medical or allied health professional, student or research academic please join us online for an exciting event all about photobiomodulation and how it helps tackle musculoskeletal and sports injury pain from a clinical perspective. Our guest presenter is Professor Liisa Laakso, principal research fellow (Allied Health) Mater Research Institute, past WALT president and European Medical Laser Association Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient. In this session we will explore:
- The pathophysiological effects of acute sports injury
- A definition of pain
- Evidence for the use of PBM in acute sports injury
- Evidence for the use of PBM in musculoskeletal pain management
About Our Guest Presenter
Dr Liisa Laakso is Principal Research Fellow (Allied Health) at the Mater Research Institute, Brisbane; Honorary Associate Professor at The University of Queensland Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences; and Adjunct Professor of Physiotherapy in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Prof Laakso was the first Australian to complete a PhD in the field of laser therapy. In 2020, Prof Laakso was recognised by the European Medical Laser Association with a lifetime achievement award.
Prof Laakso’s research focuses on:
- the role of photobiomodulation (PBM) therapy for pain, lymphoedema management, tissue healing, inflammation and neurodegeneration in a range of non-malignant and malignant laboratory and clinical models and populations;
- symptom control and prevention in chronic disease, and in recovery after cancer, and in palliative care.
Her work includes one of the largest ever funded studies of peri-operative PBM in people undergoing total knee replacement surgery.
Prof Laakso is an executive committee member of the Australian Medical Photobiomodulation Association (AMPA), and past-President of the World Association for Laser Therapy (WALT). Prof Laakso is a past Vice-President of the International Society for Electrophysical Agents in Physical Therapy (an official sub-group of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy). She is also on the editorial board of the journal Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine and Laser Surgery.
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