Acupuncture and Sports Injury
Our clinic has very good success rates with treating sports injuries, our principal Acupuncturist Dr Francesco has trained in martial arts since a young boy and his training also involved learning special techniques to overcome all sorts of injuries that occur whist pushing the human body to its limits.
It’s also very common for professional sports teams to have an acupuncturists on staff, acupuncture is very useful also for decreasing the healing time of injuries and treating ailments that are very difficult to treat by other body work modalities as its able to access parts of the body which are difficult to get your fingers into such as the spine, under the knee cap and to deeper muscles such as the psoas muscle.
Common Sports Injuries include:
- Lumbar Disc Herniations
- Medial & Lateral Epicondylitis
- Frozen Shoulder
- Plantar Fascitis
- Acute Olecranon Bursitis
- Acromioclavicular Joint Separation
- Rotator Cuff Tendonitis
- Patellofemoral Syndrome
- Osteoarthritis of all joints
- Meniscal Tears
- Bicepital Tenosynovitis
- Anterior
- Posterior Cruciate Ligament Tears
Other conditions commonly treated in our clinic:
- Ankle Sprain
- Tennis Elbow
- Pitcher Shoulder
- Shin Splints
- Golfer Elbow
- Low Back Strain
- Trick Knee
- Tendonitis
- Trigger Finger