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Million of people are affected by a debilitating injury of the forearm know as lateral epicondylitis, or tennis elbow. Tennis elbow has cut short many athletes careers, sometimes at the peak of their careers. Even though the ailment is know be the name tennis elbow less the five percent of all the diagnoses are for professional tennis players.

The tennis elbow gets relieved if we give complete rest to the arm and the elbow. However, this remedy is not possible for persons whose livelihood depends on their hands e.g. manual workers, sportsmen etc. Doctors have performed considerable amount of therapeutic research to find credible therapies to relieve this pain and make people suffering from this condition more mobile. All these research has shown that alternative therapy for elbow pain is acupuncture.

In acupuncture it is believed that tennis elbow is caused by liver imbalances. This is a different understanding of the condition as taught to sports physiologists. The sports physiologists thought tennis elbow was caused by overexertion, resulting in shearing of tendons attaching muscles to the bone at the elbow joint.

Acupuncturists admit that overexertion of muscles leads to shearing of tendons. However, they also believe that there are imbalances in the flow of "Chi", the life energy in the liver, which causes these tendons to loose moisture which becomes the underlying cause for tennis elbow. As a natural treatment for tennis elbow, acupuncture therapy promises to relieve pain and also make sure that it doesn't recur by curing the Chi imbalance.

When you go consult an acupuncture therapist for tennis elbow treatment, he will observe, enquire about you, look at your tongue, feel your pulse, and will also perform palpation. He will then insert needles on particular points of the body or "ashi" on the channel to decongest the channel to facilitate free flow of Chi.

Millions of people have successfully rid themselves of the painful condition of tennis elbow using traditional Chinese therapy. There have been many surveys that have been conducted to prove the effectivness of acupuncture in the treatment of pain.

Tennis elbow debilitates the forelimb movement and affects people. Rest relieves pain, but not practical since it affects the livelihood of manual workers/sportsmen. Therapeutic research to find solution has been conducted by doctors. All these research has shown that alternative therapy for elbow pain and natural treatment for tennis elbow is acupuncture. Sports physiologists believe that tennis elbow is a result of overexertion. acupuncturist believes that imbalance in Chi, causes dehydration of the tendons which combined with over-exertion causes tennis-elbow. The therapist will insert needles on specific points on the associated channel to decongest the channel and facilitate free flow of Chi. Chinese therapy has successfully cured millions of people.