Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) takes a holistic approach to understanding normal function of the body. Dating back thousands of years, traditional Chinese medicine has several components to prevent and treat disruption within your health. Treatments performed by Performance Sport and Spine include,

Acupuncture is the most often practiced component of traditional Chinese medicine that has been shown to control pain and aid in healing. Acupuncture helps to treat:

• Joint and muscle pain
• Back and neck pain
• Osteoarthritis
• Migraine and other headaches
• Sinusitis

Fire cupping therapy allows the tissue to stretch which increases circulation, promotes new blood vessels, and increases oxygenation and into the surrounding tissues delivery. Cupping is best used in conjunction with joint manipulation and acupuncture. The combination allows increased mobility to the injured area.

Biomedical acupuncture aka Integrative systemic dry needling is a type of acupuncture that utilizes a more Western medical approach focusing on anatomy, physiology, histology, and neurology on point selection to achieve optimal health benefits.  Biomedical Acupuncture achieves similar benefits to TCM Acupuncture, but it uses different diagnostic criteria that combines laboratory research and practical clinical research and is derived from traditions dating 300 years of Western science and 2,500 years of Chinese observation and practice. Biomedical acupuncture helps to relieve chronic pain.