Acupuncture is the world’s most popular medical treatment. It has been conducted for nearly 5000 years, and is widely used to reduce and relieve pain and to speed up the healing process. Certified physiotherapists at Elite Sports Injury physiotherapy clinics use acupuncture as needed in your customized physiotherapy treatment plan

Acupuncture treatments involve specific placement of ultra-thin needles on the body’s acupuncture points, which are areas of acute electrical sensitivity, allowing stimulation of nerves that tell the brain to release endorphins.

Each acupuncture point used in treatment (also referred to as “acupoints”) is in an area that is related to the location of the pain that needs to be resolved. When the needles are stimulated by the physiotherapist — by hand, heat, or electricity — the released endorphins help to manage the pain in that area. Only sterile, disposable acupuncture needles are used.

While acupuncture can be used for a variety of illnesses, it is most commonly used in the treatment of acute and chronic pain, muscle inflammation and tenderness, muscle spasms, and headaches.