Improve Your Game with Acupuncture
by Steven Sonmore, L.Ac., Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM)
If you’re like most golf and tennis players, you play to win. But is the condition of your body standing in your way? The truth is that your body is the most important piece of sports equipment you own. You can have the finest set of golf clubs that money can buy, for example, but if pain and stiffness are holding back your swing, those clubs will do you no good.
You might be surprised to learn that acupuncture can help you to bring your golf or tennis game to the next level. Sports injuries can create ongoing musculoskeletal pain, and targeted acupuncture treatments help restore balance and reduce nervous system overactivity.
First of all, acupuncture is especially effective in treating tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow. These conditions, which are due to repetitive overuse of your elbow’s extensor and flexor muscles, are rarely treated satisfactorily by conventional methods. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and steroid injections can cause numerous side effects, and surgery is invasive and often largely ineffective.
Acupuncture Therapy Shows Significant Results In Treating Elbow and Back Pain
Within the last 20 years, studies have shown that acupuncture is more effective in the treatment of elbow pain than drugs, injections, or surgery. In one compelling study published in the journal, Pa