Acupuncture Can Treat Tennis Elbow For Never To Return
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
Tennis elbow needs complete rest for the arm and elbow. This is a difficult task for people like sportsmen, manual workers etc. who cannot opt for complete immobilization of the arm. An effective alternate therapy for elbow pain is acupuncture. Search for a credible therapy to relieve the pain and restoring the mobility has been a subject of wide spread and intensive research by doctors the world over.
In acupuncture it is believed that tennis elbow is caused by liver imbalances. This is a different understanding of the condition as taught to sports physiologists. The sports physiologists thought tennis elbow was caused by overexertion, resulting in shearing of tendons attaching muscles to the bone at the elbow joint.
Acupuncturists admit that overexertion of muscles leads to shearing of tendons. However, they also believe that there are imbalances in the flow of "Chi", the life energy in the liver, which causes these tendons to loose moisture which becomes the underlying cause for tennis elbow. As a natural treatment for tennis elbow, acupuncture therapy promises to relieve pain and also make sure that it doesn't recur by curing the Chi imbalance.
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.
Various surveys which have been conducted prove the effect of acupuncture on pain. But there are millions of people who have cued of this painful condition successfully by using this traditional Chinese therapy.
Tennis elbow debilitates forelimb movement and has affected millions of people. Complete rest relieves this condition, but it is difficult for manual workers and sportspeople to rest for long. That's why there is a world-wide search for natural treatment for tennis elbow. One promising alternative therapy for elbow pain is acupuncture. According to practitioners, an imbalance in the life force, Chi or Qi, as well as overexertion, leads to pain in the elbow. By inserting needles in specific points, a therapist will facilitate the free flow of Chi and relieve the condition. Numerous scientific surveys have demonstrated the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of pain and case histories have shown it has brought relief to millions of people.
- Keith Ferris
