In the application of acupuncture and sports medicine

Joy LeWang

China's traditional Chinese medicine academy of sciences xiyuan hospital lee wisdom

Many athletes of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy of sports injury or fatigue has personal experience to pass. The main treatment effect of acupuncture analgesia, swelling, embodied in spasm, promote the blood circulation and metabolism, traditional Chinese medicine from the standpoint of meridians is clear.

When the doctor meet unexpected emergency state, should be calm, judge whether the wounded lesions, or fracture dislocation, whether to need to the hospital. In this one phase doctors also can do a cold compress or dress, also can do some relevant acupuncture treatment.

Spent in the acute phase, enough rest, proper massage is very important. In acupuncture point, should pay attention to choose the sensitive to the point and tenderness for effective highest principle.

Choose acupuncture point principle

Traditional Chinese medicine from the point of view of the sports injury, the mechanism in the acute phase is mainly damage when led to the disorder of qi, chronic in development will lead to the decline of qi deficiency, upright weak functions more vulnerable to invade.

Acupuncture treatment of the sports injury choose acupuncture point principle, can be reduced to the far end take, adjacent to take, cross take and syndrome differentiation and location. Sometimes, the treatment of the points on the body parts. When the athlete knee or not turn to use it correctly, might make a ligament, tendon or other organizations were injured

. The doctor can select the elbow reaction point, also can be in his knee, or find nearby choose acupuncture point is o. On the waist of acute sprains, select hand waist spot-point, or the bilateral is nearby, some of the hole is. Elbow injury is a common case, this can often see

Some of the tenderness and knee point of spot nearby area.

Of course, these methods also is not static. If a certain point not immediately, and onset should change as soon as possible next may choose the chakra. When faced with a few days ago the injured athletes, one group of acupuncture point is not very good, they should be flexible to try different areas.

Deal with fatigue

Now, fatigue is a day to many athletes cause trouble is one of important factors. TCM holds that the human body real health come from within. Only when a person from in and outside all healthy and dynamic, or it is to waste energy consumption in the residual, health.

In the modern medical treatment, the goal of all therapy could be classed as two points: what shall be avoided with both disease namely cure.

Eye fatigue can choose some is located in the neck or head of the chakra. TCM holds that the neck and liver after the eyes have some special with contact, can choose liver yu, wind pool points.

Fatigue can be in a shoulder to shoulder to shoulder blade department and the search for many effective near point, as the days of hole, grasp the wind of caves. Back of the spine is very important, so along the spine of the clip hole ridge point is very effective.

Lower limb fatigue can choose close yuan, sp9, kunlun points. Abdominal can choose in wan, god que, day atlas points.

Abdominal GuanYuanHe knee sp9, the two acupuncture points used way has a DuoZhong, and pass very exact. In fact sp9 the day after tomorrow is the important point of spleen and stomach, and shut the yuan is about the body of the innate energy.

In addition, some supplementary methods can be appropriately used in the treatment of all kinds of fatigue. Such as cutem is through the negative pressure, the way that local sucking relax, ease chronic pain. Moxibustion is able to penetrate the skin into the deep tissue.

Sports competitive nervous syndrome is in some ways the psychological fatigue form. Tension will body into some physical symptoms, such as dizziness, want to be oh, forgetfulness, insomnia, etc. It is within a pericardial the points, it can alleviate the chest or abdomen of oppression or pain.

Point in the body top, it can carry on blood, and can make a person quiet. Temples in the temporal, it can effectively reduce the dizzy.

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