Acupuncture: A Timeless Cure For 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
The tennis elbow gets relieved if we give complete rest to the arm and the elbow. However, this remedy is not possible for persons whose livelihood depends on their hands e.g. manual workers, sportsmen etc. Doctors have performed considerable amount of therapeutic research to find credible therapies to relieve this pain and make people suffering from this condition more mobile. All these research has shown that alternative therapy for elbow pain is acupuncture.
Contrary to the popular belief of sports physiologists that tennis elbow is a result of overexertion resulting in damage to the tendons joining muscles to the bone at elbow joint, Acupuncture holds liver imbalances responsible for tennis elbow and tries to treat the imbalance as a way to cure 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.
An acupuncture practitioner will perform diagnosis of the symptom and the underlying balance to being an acupuncture treatment. Acupuncturists use palpation, questioning, physical examination, auscultation and olfaction for arriving at a diagnosis. As per his or her diagnosis, he will then insert thin, rounded metallic needles at various “ashi”, or pain gates of the relevant channel to remove the imbalance by allowing free flow of “Chi”, the life energy.
Numerous research projects have been conducted to prove that the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating pain, especially conditions such as tennis elbow. There are millions of people who have successfully got rid of this painful condition using this traditional Chinese therapy.
Millions of people are affected by tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis . Doctors prescribe complete rest to relieve the pain but this can seldom be implemented by active sports persons. Acupuncture is a natural treatment for tennis elbow and holds much hope. Acupuncturists believe that imbalance in Chi (or Qi), the fundamental life force, in liver causes dehydration of tendons and coupled with over exertion results in the elbow pain. Acupuncturists insert needles on specific points or “ashi” on the “Yin” channel to decongest the channel and enable smooth flow of Chi. Patients can try this alternative therapy for elbow pain since Acupuncturists have successfully cured millions of people.
- Keith Ferris
