Acupuncture is the best elbow pain solution – it’s safe, natural, fast, and delivers long-lasting relief. Today’s blog post talks about a recent elbow pain case at our clinic. It involved a young man with pain in both of his elbows. He was a weight lifter and had developed elbow pain in the last two months. The pain was limited his ability to work out – he was unable to lift his normal weights. He came to acupuncture because he did not want a cortisone shot, nor did he want to take ibuprofen three times a day for a month – the solutions offered by his family physician.
Best Elbow Pain Solution
Our patient’s left elbow was giving him the most trouble. The pain was on the inside of the elbow, what is called medial epicondylitis, colloquially known as “golfers elbow”. He also had lesser pain in his right elbow, on the outside, commonly known as “tennis elbow”. He was unfortunate to be struggling with both types of elbow pain, but he was lucky that he came for treatment where there was an effective treatment for both conditions.
Golf Elbow Resolved With Acupuncture
The key to effectively treating elbow pain is understanding the root cause of the pain. Most of the time elbow pain is caused by inflammation of the tendons, brought on by repetitive stress. Another trigger for injury to tendons is exerting too much strain on the connection between the tendon and the muscle it attaches to. Weight lifters spend hours in the gym each week doing repetitive movements with extremely heavy weights – the perfect combination of stresses to trigger inflamed tendons.
Acupuncture is the best elbow pain solution because it drains inflammation from injured tendons by increasing blood circulation at the source of the injury. The increased blood flow cools the damaged tendons, allowing them to heal. Furthermore, acupuncture repairs microtears in the tendons and muscles caused by heavy lifting. This one-two punch of healing is unparalleled for repairing damaged tendons and restoring normal joint function.
In the case of our weight lifting patient, we treated his Golfers Elbow with six acupuncture points in meridians that crossed the medial epicondyle of his left elbow. Once the points were in place, we attached small clamps to the needles and activated an electroacupuncture machine. This device, invented in China in the 1950s, distributes a gentle electric current from the machine, into the primary needle, down into the body, along the meridian which runs through the body alongside the inflamed tendon, to the second needle, and out to the machine, forming a loop. Electroacupuncture speeds up the healing process by at least 50% and works wonders for all forms of tendinitis.
Tennis Elbow Resolved With Acupuncture
Our patient’s lateral epicondyle tendinitis on the right elbow was less severe than the left. But the “best elbow pain solution” strategy was the same – using acupuncture points along the meridians that crossed the inflamed tendons, then using electroacupuncture to enhance the effect of the needles.
The results were impressive – both elbows improved after the first treatment. As expected, the right elbow healed first, after three treatments, while the more painful left elbow required five treatments to fully heal. All the while, our patient was still lifting weights, albeit at lower levels of intensity. But after the completion of his treatments, he was back up to lifting his normal weight levels, and in fact, increased his weights to a new personal best.
What To Expect
Treatments are safe – all needles are sterile and single-use. And the sessions are relaxing – our patient often fell asleep during his sessions. No matter where you are struggling with inflammation or tendinitis, acupuncture can relieve your pain – it is the best elbow pain solution.
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