How helpful is Acupunture

Acupuncture treatment can help in treating acute and chronic sports injuries. Best results are when treatment is given within 48 hours of a sports injury.

Acupuncture is useful to martial artistes, dancers and performers, animal trainers, speed skaters, tennis and golf players, cricketers, basketball and football players. It is a safe, effective method of treating sports injuries. The ancient art of pain relief enhances endurance by balancing body, mind and spirit and by harmonising the body’s energy flow. It speeds recovery from injuries as well as surgeries. It eliminates pain and soreness. When used with rest, ice, compression, and elevation or RICE, it suppresses inflammation and swelling in good time.

Flow of chi

 Acupuncture improves circulation of blood that cleanses muscles of lactic acid. It increases the production of endorphins, relieves pain and gives a feeling of wellbeing. It removes stagnant energy in meridians that re-establishes the flow of chi and blood. Inert energy is one of the main causes of pain after injury.

Different types of acute and chronic sports injuries that can be treated with acupuncture are sprains and strains of the joints and surrounding tissues, including swelling, bruises, reduced range of joint mobility and stiffness. It helps you to regain joint mobility.

Acupuncture is effective in overuse injuries or stress fractures such as tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome and Iliotibial band syndrome. It effectively cures tendonitis and bursitis as well.

Pain relief

 It helps in overcoming fatigue and relieves headache and dizziness. It provides relief in heel pain, including Achilles tendonitis and plantar fasciitis, foot pain caused by ankle sprain and metatarsalgia. It helps in overcoming leg pain because of anterior tibial stress syndrome or medial tibial stress syndrome and knee pain from patello-femoral joint dysfunction and from runner’s knee.

You can also use it to get respite from posterior thigh pain, and hip pain because of injury to the hip or hip arthritis.

Acupuncture is useful in curing lower back pain because of spasms of quadratus lumborum muscle and also in hand pain or carpal tunnel syndrome. This healing remedy librates a patient from shoulder pain caused by injury to supraspinatous muscle or frozen shoulder. It also helps in neck pain, stiff neck or chronic lingering pain. Refer