If you want to know more about the general effects of acupuncture, please see here. In this section, I mention the cause of pain in the elbow and wrist and how to treat by acupuncture.

For those who uses elbow and wrist often such as tennis players, baseball players and golfers etc, tend to get pain in their arms. There are so many muscles between the elbow and the wrist. Mainly, it is divided into the extensor and flexor. The following diagnosis will be given by the doctor for pains in elbows and wrist.

Fracture, dislocation or sprain of the elbow/wrist, baseball elbow(Olecranon Epiphysitis, Osteochondritis dissecans), Tennis elbow (Lateral epicondylitis), golf elbow (Medial epicondylitis), tendonitis (de Quervain disease) Lunatomalacia (Kienbock disease) and the Entrapment neuropathy(Cubical tunnel syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc.) Or, the pain and numbness in the elbow or wrist could be coming from the upper point, such as neck (Cervical disc herniation, Cervical spinal canal stenosis, Cervical spondylotic myelopathy, Cervical spondylotic radiculopathy, Ossification od posterior longitudinal ligament, Thoracic outlet syndrome (anterior scalene syndrome, cervical costal syndrome, costoclavicular syndrome, Pectoralis minor syndrome)

There are a lot of symptoms, and the masseur and acupuncturist have to understand all the mechanisms, but what we can do is to loosen the stiffness of the muscles and improve circulation. It is not possible to fix the root of the pain which comes from the deformity of the bone. For those diseases, the doctor's treatment is the first choice. However, the pain may remain after the series of treatment by doctors or rehabilitation by physio is completed. That is because the muscles around foot reacted sensitive and get stiff, that will lead the nerves around them squeezed by the stiffness of the muscles. By massaging and acupuncture, the tension of the muscle and fascia get released and lighten the burden on the nerves that are causing the pain.

In the treatment, I will find the cause of the pain by examining carefully.