The Many Benefits Of Acupuncture For Sports Injuries
When you suffer an injury during your favorite sport, it can be emotionally and physically devastating. If you’re a professional or college level athlete, it could have very real impacts on your future in the sport and in your career overall. Getting through the healing process and getting back to 100% physical shape is priority number one, but it isn’t always a short or even straightforward process. Luckily, acupuncture can play a pivotal role in helping you heal faster, more completely, and in a pinpointed way to help you get back on the field ahead of schedule. In today’s article, we’re going to cover some of the top ways in which acupuncture for sports injuries can help you or someone you know both physically and mentally.
Acupuncture Can Help You Manage Pain
As anyone who has been injured in a sports setting can tell you the nature and severity of the injury itself is one thing, but the pain is another obstacle altogether. Sometimes even a minor muscle tear or sprain can lead to major pain when you try to get back out on the field which can inhibit your recovery and practice. Acupuncture’s ability to very quickly reduce your pain levels and ease your mental state is instrumental to allowing you to recover from your injury faster.
Sports Injury Acupuncture Can Help Improve Blood Flow And Decrease Inflammation
Aside from reducing pain at the injury site, it can help to direct your body’s healing response to the exact area of the injury in a major way. Acupuncture helps to reduce the natural inflammation response of your body around the injured tissue and aids in the direct healing process by increasing helpful oxygenated blood flow where it is needed. Thus taking valuable days or even weeks off of your natural healing time.
Acupuncture Can Help Boost Your Mood And Heal Your “Mental Wounds”
Pain is terrible and chronic pain is even worse. Acupuncture can help you to reduce and even in some cases, eliminate the pain caused by your injury. It can help you to be able to focus more on healing, being at peace, and being happy rather than being distracted by aches and pains. An important part of healing from an injury is getting your mind ready to face the rigors of the sport again with confidence!
Preventing The Injury In The First Place
Sometimes the best way to recover from an injury is to never get one in the first place or by turning what would be a severe injury into a minor one by reducing the toll it takes on your body. This can all be done through regular preventative acupuncture appointments as you train and perform in your sport! Regular routine acupuncture visits can prepare your body to be more limber, flexible, and resistant to injury which can prevent common sports injuries from happening in the first place!
For The Road
We hope you enjoyed learning about how acupuncture is an excellent way to boost the healing process of a sports related injury. If you would like to know more about this or any of our excellent services, we are happy to help. Just contact us and we can go over your options and help you find the best path for your health goals. If you have any questions or would like to schedule a consultation for acupuncture, herbal medicine, functional medicine, supplements or lifestyle modifications, please reach out to us HERE. We offer telemedicine for those who are not within driving distance from our office.