Local laser therapy or low level laser therapy (LLLT) has been enjoying increased popularity in recent years in both human and veterinary medicine. It provides excellent healing in traumatized or infected tissue by increased energy (ATP) in diseased tissues which have high energy requirements, provides peroxide clearance and restructures abnormal dense connective tissue (e.g. in tendonitis). Acupuncture and LLLT are separate treatment modalities, but the synthesis of these two very effective therapies allows local healing of diseased tissue with LLLT supported by acupuncture as an autonomous regulating therapy. It is important to emphasize that the resulting “laser acupuncture” not only means the stimulation of the acupuncture point by the laser beam instead of the needle, but that the local tissue healing effect of increased ATP production by laser light supplements acupuncture as an integral part of the therapy. It is important to differentiate between the different types of lasers (continuous wave versus pulsed wave) and the different features that are associated with laser effects such as: wavelength, power output and resonance frequencies. When evaluating appropriate laser units for use in veterinary laser acupuncture, the pulsed lasers with a 90 watt pulse peak and 904 nm wavelength are featured as they achieve high penetration depth with sufficient application of laser photons in traumatized or infected tissue, without a thermal reaction in the tissue. For veterinary acupuncturists, the addition of low level laser therapy and laser acupuncture can be used in addition to any thinkable acupuncture treatment which gives additional options for achieving optimal results.