Acupuncture can greatly enhance the recovery process for injuries occurring in the muscles, tendons, and or bones.
How Acupuncture Can Treat Injuries
Acupuncture works by promoting blood circulation to injured areas. This enables injured areas to heal and decreases inflammation.
In addition to increased blood circulation, acupuncture reduces pain by stimulating the production of natural painkillers called beta-endorphins which are 18-33 times stronger than morphine.
By increasing our natural painkillers, the pain cycle may be broken. The pain cycle is the body’s natural response to noxious stimuli. This causes muscles to contract and limits mobility.
Further contraction leads to more pain which leads to more contraction. Pain reduction helps restore muscle function.
Acupuncture at specific point regions strengthens muscle weakness. Pain can cause dysfunction at the nerve-muscle junctions.
When this occurs muscles cannot contract with full strength. This causes other muscles to compensate for the weak muscles leading to pain in different areas of the body.
When we strengthen the specific muscle that is responsible for performing
certain movements we can restore normal movement and function and decrease pain as a result of faulty mechanics.
To sum up, acupuncture heals musculoskeletal pain and injury by promoting circulation, increases the production of our natural painkillers, and restores muscle function with the appropriate techniques.
Book an appointment with a New York City acupuncturist today.
