Practicing sports in a professional or a casual way is a great form of spend your spare time and to stay in shape. For those who train every day or just a few days a week, healing sports injuries with acupuncture is a reasonable option. Acupuncture can help to endurance and enhance athletic performance, and also assists in recovery and prevention of injuries.

Acupuncture for Sports

Acupuncture technique helped ancient fighters in good condition and nowadays it continues to aid athletes to be active and healthy. Some sportspeople who are known to use acupuncture on a regular basis are Carl Lewis, Jim McMahon, Martina Hingis, Charles Barkley and Maria Sharapova, among others. It is also common to employ acupuncturists in professional sports teams to keep players’ condition and to treat injuries.

After an Injury

Athletes and sports people are competitive in nature, and this can lead them beyond their limitations, resulting in sports injuries. After a traumatic injury happens, the first step is to check with a physician to be sure that it is not serious. Dislocations, fractures, ruptured tendons and severe internal injuries should be treated by a doctor in a hospital. In order to get back on track as soon as possible, healing sports injuries with acupuncture therapy can reduce pain, speed healing time and enhance recovery.

• The common sports injuries that acupuncture can treat are:

• Wrist sprains and strains

• Knee ligament and meniscus injuries

• Shoulder rotator cuff tears and strains

• Ankle sprains and strains

• Vertebral disc inflammation in the back or neck

• Strains and tears of any muscle or tendon

Healing Sports Injuries with Acupuncture

The needles of acupuncture stimulate the circulation of the body and incites an immune response, making the body to removing stagnated cells and toxins that are surrounding the injury. In consequence, if the trauma is forced to clean out damaged tissue, providing healthy cells to the lesion, it will decrease inflammation and swelling, it will heal faster, resulting in the reduction of pain. The physical, emotional and psychological benefits of acupuncture will improve not only the healing process of the body but also of the mind, alleviating mental stress through relaxation.

Acupuncture treatments are often covered by extended health plans in Vancouver. Contact Prestige and book an appointment with our registered acupuncturist if you are looking to experience a relaxing and healing treatment of acupuncture in Kitsilano. Whether you are interested in acupuncture for sports injuries, pain relief, stress or any other condition, Azadeh Baradaran will be happy to help you.