Ankle pain and achilles tendonitis, tried acupuncture?
Effect of acupuncture on chronic Achilles tendonitis Why can acupuncture help tendon injury? Tendon is tough fibrous connective tissue which connects muscles to bones. Tendon is made of collagen. Tendon injury includes acute and chronic injury is very common. The symptoms include pain, redness, warmness, swelling, tenderness near the injured tendon. Pain increases with activity. Also pain can radiate to other part of the body. Rest, ice, steroids injection, massage can be used to treat tendon injury. Acupuncture is proven to be effective for tendon injury. Clinical study showed that acupuncture improves pain and functional activity in patients with tendon injury. Recent studies showed that acupuncture can modulate anti-inflammatory and mechanotransduction molecular pathways which subsequently increase collagen synthesis and reorganisation. This underlies acupuncture tendon healing mechanisms. Effect of acupuncture on chronic Achilles tendonitis Achilles tendon is the tendon at the bac...