Sports Injuries
It is a little known fact that the treatment of sports injuries has a history as old as Chinese medicine itself. At all times, and in all places, people have sought to recover quickly from injury and to prevent a minor injury becoming chronic and debilitating.
Whilst modern sports in the West trace a lineage back to ancient Greece, Chinese sports have a similarly ancient, but more pragmatic lineage. For generations each Chinese village had its own martial art practiced for the simple efficacy of protection from bandits, who of course had their own combat systems.
Martial arts demand strength, power, stamina and flexibility. Injury rates can be high. The stakes for getting back to fitness were even higher, so Chinese medicine and acupuncture met this challenge and developed fantastic therapeutic techniques which survive to this day because they were quick and effective.
You don’t have to be a kungfu adept to benefit from this treasury of therapeutic excellence. It doesn’t matter that your Achilles tendonitis, tennis elbow or knee strain come from squash or preying mantis kungfu, your strained back from a fall from a horse or a throw from a baguachuan fighter. Modern athletes benefit as much from acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping and so on as did the fighters from China’s long history.
With the Beijing Olympics there has been a growing awareness in the West of China's long sporting traditions, and sports such as golf, polo, volleyball and football are thought to have originated in China.
Whether your injury is acute or chronic, give me a call today to find out how I can help you.
Jamie Gisby - Acupuncture and Low Intensity Laser Therapy for sports injuries and pain management.
