Think of ‘injury time’, and your thoughts will typically turn to those exciting extra minutes when games are level and everything is to play for. One thing’s for sure, when the ‘injury time’ is personal to you, you just want it to end, and of course to recover as soon as possible.
Forward thinking amateur and professional sportsmen and women are now engaging in a whole range of holistic solutions including yoga, pilates and now acupuncture. Athletes who are incorporating traditional acupuncture with other therapies such as physiotherapy, massage etc. are noticing better overall results and fewer injuries. Acupuncture can help resolve pain, improve circulation and accelerate healing, ensuring a return to peak fitness and avoiding too many visits to the Club treatment table.
“Athletes who are incorporating traditional acupuncture with other therapies such as physiotherapy, massage etc. are noticing better overall results and fewer injuries.”
Here at threepoints Sports Acupuncture you will only receive traditional acupuncture, and that means I will almost certainly needle points not just local to your ‘problem’ area. I may also combine acupuncture with moxabustion (a form of heating the needle or acupuncture point), cupping, gua sha and electro acupuncture when I feel it is appropriate.
Using traditional acupuncture I will treat the cause as well as the symptoms. This is why points selected may not just be where ‘it hurts’. Treating the cause results in accelerated healing time and less repeat injuries. In addition incorporating regular acupuncture whilst training, not just when injured, helps the body recover from intensive physical workout and naturally boosts energy levels.
Traditional acupuncture treats the complete person physically and psychologically. So in addition to recovering from injury you might also experience the following ‘up-side effects’:
