Acupuncture: A Traditional Therapy For Recurring Pain

Tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis is known to debilitate the forelimb movement and has affected millions of people. Tennis elbow has also resulted in cutting short of many a promising athletic careers. Tennis elbow is a misnomer as because only less than five per cent of the people diagnosed with this ailment were playing tennis professionally

Complete rest relieves tennis elbow. But it is difficult for manual workers and sportsmen to remain on rest for so long. All over the world a lot of therapeutic Researches are going on to find a suitable remedy for tennis elbow. Alternative therapies are also being looked into as a way to address this issue. Acupuncture is one such alternative therapy for elbow pain which promises a way out of this.

Acupuncture gives a different reason for tennis elbow. When imbalances in the liver is held responsible for tennis elbow by acupuncture sports physiologists were surprised since they have been of the opinion that overexertion resulting in shearing of tendons which attach muscles to the bone at the elbow joint is the reason for tennis elbow.

According to accupuncturists, dehydration of the tendons can be cause by a Chi embalance in the liver, or an embalance of the fundamental life force. This may cause tennis elbow when paired with over-exertion. Acupuncture is a natural treatment for tennis elbow which relieves pain in addition to removing the imbalance in Chi which causes the condition, therefor preventing the likelihood of recurrence.

When you go for tennis elbow treatment to an acupuncture practitioner he will observe your body and ask some questions and look at your tongue, feel your pulse, and do palpation. After his diagnosis he will insert needles on some specific points called "ashi" on the channel which runs from through the elbow to decongest the channel. This facilitates the free flow of Chi.

Millions of people have successfully rid themselves of the painful condition of tennis elbow using traditional Chinese therapy. There have been many surveys that have been conducted to prove the effectivness of acupuncture in the treatment of pain.

 

Tennis elbow debilitates the forelimb movement and affects people. Rest relieves pain, but not practical since it affects the livelihood of manual workers/sportsmen. Therapeutic research to find solution has been conducted by doctors. All these research has shown that alternative therapy for elbow pain and natural treatment for tennis elbow is acupuncture. Sports physiologists believe that tennis elbow is a result of overexertion. acupuncturist believes that imbalance in Chi, causes dehydration of the tendons which combined with over-exertion causes tennis-elbow. The therapist will insert needles on specific points on the associated channel to decongest the channel and facilitate free flow of Chi. Chinese therapy has successfully cured millions of people.

 

Source: Keith Ferris