Learn how Chinese medicine can benefit you in living a healthier and happier life.
That’s the old Chinese adage that first came to mind when I read a recent blog post on injuries. Traditional Chinese medicine has known for centuries that ice is detrimental to healing injured tissue, and now it seems that some western MD’s might be coming around to the same conclusion.
Ice is great at preserving things in a fixed state.
Ice is great for keeping my meat CSA fresh throughout the winter, but you’ll never find me icing my shoulder after one too many pull-ups.
Kobe Bryant does it. So does McKayla Moroney. Dee Dee Trotter even brought someone to London with her in order to continue her treatments during the Olympic games. What’s their secret to functioning at the professional athletic level? Acupuncture.
Once only thought of as a last resort for people with low back pain, people with conditions varying from autoimmune diseases to generalized anxiety are now turning to acupuncture for help. This is especially true for active individuals. Athletes of all levels are embracing the benefits that acupuncture produces: quicker recovery time after strenuous workouts, help healing from injuries, less anxiety during competitions, and the list goes on and on.
So, you know that tight, painful feeling in your neck from hours of working on the laptop and staring at your phone? Perhaps your shoulders feel tight and ropy, and you feel like the Hunchback of Notre Desk. And maybe you have a headache too, something dull and achy that starts at the base of your skull, then travels over the top of your head to your eyes, or through the side of your head to your temple.
You have a case of “tech neck”, and cupping is your new best friend.
Back pain is one of the most common reasons that people seek out complementary therapies like acupuncture, massage, and chiropractic. Thankfully, acupuncture can help big time! Research shows that acupuncture helps relieve many types of pain, especially back pain. Acupuncture may even be more effective for acute low back pain than NSAID medications like Ibuprofen.
But how does acupuncture work for back pain? Or, more accurately, how does Chinese medicine work?
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