The Benefits of Adding Acupuncture to Your Recovery from Injury

Whether you lead an active life or enjoy moving through your world with ease, a musculoskeletal injury is never a welcome development. Indeed, you want to do everything you can to get to the other side of the injury as quickly and comfortably as possible.

The SOAR Spine and Orthopedics team has you covered, and we work tirelessly with our patients to find the right combination of treatments. Oftentimes, we’ve found that adding acupuncture to any injury recovery regimen is highly beneficial. 

This approach is gaining in popularity as more Americans realize the benefits of acupuncture — the use of this ancient practice has more than doubled between 2002 and 2020 in the United States.

Here’s a look at how blending a 3,000-year-old practice with modern medicine is helping our patients get through injuries.

Acupuncture advances healing forward

When you injure yourself, your body jumps into action and kicks off a four-stage healing cascade that includes:

1. Stasis — stopping any bleeding
2. Inflammation — healing resources arrive on the scene
3. Cell proliferation — new cells are created to repair damaged tissues
4. Remodeling — the final strengthening stage of the injury

What each of these stages requires is a good flow of resources to the injured area, and that’s where acupuncture can help. Acupuncture balances the flow of energy in your body. For this practice, we insert thin needles into acupressure points that unblock your energy, allowing healing resources to flow more freely.

As part of your recovery, acupuncture can accelerate the healing process.

Acupuncture can help with pain relief

While being sidelined by injury is bad enough, the discomfort isn’t making your life any more pleasant, either. Acupuncture can help make you more comfortable as practitioners promote chemical balance in your body.

More specifically, acupuncture encourages the release of feel-good hormones like endorphins, which are your body’s natural painkillers.

Acupuncture works with your body

Another reason our patients rely on acupuncture is that it isn't interventional but works with your body. With acupuncture, we utilize existing resources to get them working more efficiently.

Acupuncture is relatively safe

Unlike surgery, there’s little risk associated with acupuncture — adverse effects are as low as five out of every million treatments. These adverse effects often boil down to unclean needles, which is not a problem in our practice as we use disposable needles.

By adding acupuncture to your injury rehabilitation, you have everything to gain and nothing to lose. From back issues to joint injuries, acupuncture can help you return to moving well and more comfortably in less time — which is the goal.

If you have questions about acupuncture or would like to schedule an appointment, contact us today at one of our offices in Santa Clara or Redwood City, California.