Sports acupuncture integrates Traditional Chinese Medicine with a modern sports medicine approach to treat orthopedic and sports injuries, reduce pain, improve recovery, and enhance athletic performance. Treatment techniques include acupuncture, electroacupuncture, dry needling (motor point and trigger point), needling of anatomically significant tissues, cupping, auricular acupuncture, gua sha, dietary and herbal therapies, and corrective exercise recommendations. 

Sports acupuncture has been shown to:

• Increase circulation to improve recovery and help tissue repair

• Release trigger points and fascial adhesions that limit movement and cause pain

• Correct postural and muscle imbalances

• Restore normal range of motion and motor function within the myofascial complex

• Improve blood flow and innervation to muscles, tendons, and ligaments

• Improve proprioception, neuromotor activation, and potential force output

• Balance and relax an overtrained nervous system