An SA doctor has been banned from offering any further ‘low-level laser therapy’ for migraines and pain after making “unscientific” claims about the treatment.

The Adelaide doctor was also fined $20,000, suspended for two months and reprimanded over the laser therapy that he claimed could “heal”, according to a decision from the SA Health Practitioners Tribunal.

“[The doctor] has conceded that his advertising of low-level laser therapy exceeded the standards presently accepted as scientific knowledge,” the tribunal said.

The doctor admitted he had overstated the benefits of the therapy, in advertising online, on radio and a website, the tribunal said in its findings delivered last July but only made public last month.