Tennis elbow, or as its is scientifically termed, lateral epicondylitis, is a serious problem that causes debilitation of the forelimb movement. This problem affects millions of people worldwide and has forced many a athlete to cut short their career. Contrary to the name suggests, this does not affect only tennis players, about ninety five percent of sufferers are not professional tennis players.
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.
Acupuncture has a different take on what causes tennis elbow. Contrary to the conventional understanding of sports physiologists acupuncture holds imbalances in the liver is responsible for tennis elbow. All they could think of was overexertion resulting in shearing of tendons which attach muscles to the bone at the elbow joint.
An imbalance of Chi, the fundamental life force, in the liver is believed, by practitioners of acupuncture, to lead to dehydration of the tendons. With the addition of over-exertion, this dehydration can lead to shearing of the tendons. This shearing of the tendons results in tennis elbow. Acupuncture, as a natural treatment for tennis elbow, rebalances the Chi to keep tennis elbow from recurring.
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.
Millions of people have successfully rid themselves of the painful condition of tennis elbow using traditional Chinese therapy. There have been many surveys that have been conducted to prove the effectivness of acupuncture in the treatment of pain.
Tennis elbow debilitates the forelimb movement and affects people. Rest relieves pain, but not practical since it affects the livelihood of manual workers/sportsmen. Therapeutic research to find solution has been conducted by doctors. All these research has shown that alternative therapy for elbow pain and natural treatment for tennis elbow is acupuncture. Sports physiologists believe that tennis elbow is a result of overexertion. acupuncturist believes that imbalance in Chi, causes dehydration of the tendons which combined with over-exertion causes tennis-elbow. The therapist will insert needles on specific points on the associated channel to decongest the channel and facilitate free flow of Chi. Chinese therapy has successfully cured millions of people.
- Keith Ferris