Best Veterinary Lasers for 2024 A Buyer’s Guide
Laser veterinary is an innovative field that is gaining popularity, and is becoming more and more common offering in veterinary clinics. Veterinarian discovered the advantages of veterinary lasers in managing pain, inflammation, and wound healing. Surgical lasers offer almost bloodless operating field and compatibility with endoscopic procedures. Laser puncture can be used instead of conventional acupuncture. And animal athletes are benefiting from the accelerated post-event recovery, and pre-event conditioning. Laser veterinary is fast developing field, that bring new capability to the veterinary practice.
Veterinary lasers are versatile, powerful, but expensive. Choosing the right one for your practice can be challenging. We compiled this buyer’s guide to help you find the best veterinary laser in 2024. We focused in our analysis on the Class 4 lasers, as everything that can be done with the Class 3 laser can be accomplished with a Class 4 laser, but not vice a versa.
If you want the best of the best in veterinary laser systems, you’re looking at the Eclipse®-VLS. This premium system is at a premium price, but it’s worth the extra spend. You’ll get the all-in-one machine that can be used for therapy, surgery and athletic performance. It utilizes the latest technologies (including smart handpiece IntelliWand™ with a sensor array, and nano-optics for the output beam homogenizing), and the latest in treatment protocols. It features simple and intuitive user interface. It is portable, with a high-capacity Li-ion battery that allows to perform treatments for more than an hour on a single charge. There is a fast charger that will recharge a battery in less than an hour. High-brightness wide viewing angle touch display, robust aluminum housing, and armored optical fiber make it perfect for the field use.
Pro | Con |
High power | Pricey |
4-wavelength | Relatively new company |
Surgical capabilities | |
Homogenous illumination of the treatment area | |
Extensive treatment protocols | |
Portable |
The latest model by one of the best recognized names in medical and veterinary lasers. It features astounding 50W laser power output, “smart” handpiece, and a futuristic look. We liked the large touch screen, and the fiber-cable management, that allows the fiber to be neatly wound around the base of the device. However, we felt that the style was dominating the function – the intricate shape of the device makes it difficult to clean, and the display felt flimsy.
Pro | Con |
High power | Pricey |
4-wavelength | Not portable |
Smart handpiece | Limited treatment protocols |
Non-uniform output beam |
Four wavelengths with above average power output, extensive selection of treatment protocols, homogenized output beam and portability are the main features of the top of the line veterinary laser by Summus. However, independent testing of the output power raised some concerns regarding the validity of the specified 28W power rating.
Pro | Con |
4-wavelength | Consistency of the output power |
Homogenous illumination of the treatment area | |
Extensive treatment protocols | |
Portable |
Cube Performance 30 by K-Laser and P4 by Summus
The fourth place is shared by the middle price models of K-Laser and Summus. With the history of Summus as a distribution partner of K-Laser’s medical and veterinary lasers in the US, it is easy to see similarities in the specifications, and even in the appearance of these devices. They both target middle-range price with their above the average specifications.
The sixth place is given to the top veterinary laser model of Companion, which is uninspiring, to say the least. Two wavelength and 25W output power are probably adequate for many treatments. There is an extensive selections of pre-loaded treatment protocols for a wide variety of conditions. However, it appears that in some cases the doses are reduced below current recommendation, because of the relatively low power. Empower IQ handpiece that provides visual and haptic feedback to guide operator is an interesting concept, but seems to be inconsistent in its performance. Lack of portability and a non-uniform illumination of the treatment area hardly belong to the assets of the product. With a similar price tag to the top-three models in our rating, CTS-DUO is clearly falling behind.
ALFAVET by Multi Radiance and RTL-24 by RWD
We are not sure that the word “shared” is applicable to the seventh place that is taken by ALFAVET and RTL-24. In our opinion, this is the same product offered by 2 different companies. This laser specifications are very close to the CTS-DUO, but a questionable provenance, and technical support made us rate this laser system below CTS-DUO.
In an interesting turn of events, Multi Radiance, that was one of the most vocal critics of the Class 4 laser therapy, touting that it was dangerous and not effective in comparison with their Class 3 products, is now offering a Class 4 product.
CTX-IQ by Companion and Cube 4 by K-Laser
These two entry-level veterinary laser models by Companion and K-laser are proven performers. Do not expect too much – this is where laser veterinary was 15 years ago.