Sports Acupuncture is used to speed healing, relieve pain, improve muscle strength and stamina.
Whether you’re an avid competitor, training for a race, or everyday fitness enthusiast acupuncture can help you get back in the game.
Regardless of age or fitness level, injuries can happen to anyone at anytime. These treatments are especially helpful with acute pain, nagging chronic pain and post-surgical care.
Top athletes all over the world are now using acupuncture as part of their regular treatment regimes. Surfers, skaters, runners, MLB baseball players, NFL football players, volleyball players, and Olympians have embraced sports acupuncture.
Sports acupuncturists do not rely on just acupuncture to help their patients. They also incorporate forms of soft tissue release and mobilizations, PNF stretching, and exercises to correct postural imbalances to quickly get you back in the game pain free, maintain optimal results and prevent further injuries.
At Health Pointe Jacksonville, we currently treat professional golfers, crossfitters, football players, soccer players, swimmers, marathon runners, triathletes, baseball players, cheerleaders and gymnasts.
Before your first treatment our practitioners will complete an extensive health intake, evaluate symptoms and prescribe a customized course of treatment.
When to get Acupuncture
Injuries are commonly divided into two main categories, which further determines how treatment proceeds.
Acute Injuries
Acupuncture treatments are a great thing to add any recovery routine of an acute traumatic injury. In fact, best results are achieved when treatments start immediately after the time of injury.
These treatments offer immediate pain and swelling reduction, and improved blood flow to the injured area to ensure regrowth of healthy tissue.
Chronic Injuries
Some injuries are not sudden, but slowly build up over time.
Chronic injuries usually start out as a nagging dull ache. This is the best time to start receiving treatment for these injuries. Ongoing pain can lead to further dysfunction requiring more recovery time.
Once the framework of the injury is understood, a comprehensive treatment plan can be devised to address both the main symptoms and their causes.
Client Acupuncture Reviews
Sports conditions commonly treated with acupuncture:
- Acute injuries*
- Achilles tendonitis*
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome*
- Frozen Shoulder/shoulder impingement*
- Golfer’s/Tennis elbow*
- Traumatic Brain Injury*
- Low Back Pain*
- Morton’s neuroma
- IT band syndrome
- Knee pain*
- Neck pain*
- Plantar Fasciitis*
- Repetitive strain injuries*
- Rotator cuff injuries*
- Shin splints/ tibial stress syndrome*
- Spinal disc impingement, hernation
- Bursitis
- Sciatica/Piriformis syndrome*
- Running injuries*
- TMJ dysfunction *
- Tendonitis/tendinopathy*
- Piriformis syndrome*
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Post surgical rehabilitation
- Arthritis
- And many more…
*Results may vary
While Acupuncture is one of our treatment offerings, in our clinic Dr. Miller will meet with you and evaluate your specific needs to determine if you are a good candidate for our services.
Then, if you are a good candidate for our clinic, she will formulate a treatment plan specifically for you. The majority of the time, her treatment plans draw from all of our services to give you the best comprehensive care and get you the results you desire in the most expeditious method.