Getting the Point With Acupuncture & Acupressure

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What is Acupuncture?

It is a 5,000 year+ old Eastern form of medicine whose purpose is to expedite healing in a molecular level rather than to treat symptoms as Western medicine does. Unlike Western medicine, Acupuncture does not rely on surgery or medicines that have potentially harmful side-effects either alone or in combinations.

Traditional Sports Medicine has used Electro-Acuscope based on Acupuncture in professional sports (49ers, etc.) and Olympics (Barcelona) for many years. For example, San Francisco 49er quarterback Joe Montana uses Electro-Acuscope therapy to treat his sports injuries. For more info, click here.

The writer submits that applying Traditional Sports Medicine to the treatment of RSIs is an innovative, viable and effective alternative to doctors’ knee-jerk prescriptions of surgery and medications because the former seeks to speed up healing while the latter treats symptoms.

According to the Oxford World Encyclopedia, acupuncture is a “System of medical treatment in which long needles are inserted into the body to assist healing,* relieve pain, or for anesthetic purposes.

“In ancient Chinese philosophy, acupuncture is proposed to restore the balance of YIN and YANG by freeing the flow of life-energy (chi) through pathways in the body.

“A possible scientific explanation is that the needles activate deep sensory nerves that stimulate the pituitary gland and hypothalamus to produce ENDORPHINS.” [Emphasis added].

- Oxford University Press. (2001). Oxford World Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, p. 5.

Acupressure is a non-invasive (no needles) version of acupuncture.

*Note the emphasis on healing as opposed to simply treating symptoms. This writer submits that healing is a preferable, long-term solution to RSIs than just alleviating symptoms.

Yes, cure is the operative word here.

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