Sports Injuries

A summer sport's injury can change excitement and enthusiasm to disappointment and dread. Common summer injuries that I treat include tennis (outside) and golfers (inside) elbow, strained backs and knees, twisted ankles, and sciatica. Oriental medicine has been very effective in treating these concerns (National Institute of Health's Consortium Report, 1998) which if incompletely healed could lead to more serious injuries and even more time out of work and off the beach. In my practice I use acupuncture which releases your body's natural endorphins, adrenal contice steroids, and white blood cells to decrease pain and inflammation to spend up healing. This healing reaction will also stimulate platelets to spin out connective tissue to aid in healing injuries to muscles.

Then if needed a combination of acupuncture and massage can be used to release proprioceptors (positioned sensing receptors) in the body that get stuck on sending messages to the muscles to create tight protective splinting of an area. This initially helps, but will slow down the healing if left untreated. Finally, stretching and range of motion exercises, bio-magnet acupuncture can be taught to maximize complete recovery and continued health.