Sports Rehabilitation

Sports & Athletic Injury Recovery using Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine

How can Oriental Medicine Enhance Athletic Performance?

With all the news about athletes using illegal sports enhancement drugs, it should not come as a surprise that optimizing athlete’s abilities using completely natural methods has been around for thousands of years. In fact, Chinese herbal medicine, originally, was used by ancient Chinese warlords and emperors to optimize their ability to conquer their enemies and reproduce offspring via their concubines.

Today, however, even though we’re supposed to be a more civilized society, athletes still go to battle in their particular sport. Consequently, athletes are always looking for ways to edge out their opponents.

Unfortunately, there are those that are using methods that are both illegal and detrimental to their body. Did you know that using pharmaceutical steroids causes a weakening of the adrenal glands? This is very important to know. Steroidal medications are widely used to treat a variety of inflammatory conditions. They’re very effective but the downside is that they will produce conditions like asthma, bronchitis, chronic cough, allergies, recurrent infections, muscle weakness, back pain, sleep disturbances, insomnia, dizziness, inflammation, hypoglycemia, headaches, behavior and memory problems, salt cravings, excessive thirst and urination, swellings, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, indigestion, hyperpigmentation, and cardiac problems. Not a very pretty picture.

Understanding Chinese Medicine

To maximize athletic performance using natural methods it is necessary to understand how the body functions from the perspective of Chinese medicine. Each organ system has an accompanying meridian or energetic channel. The meridians reach every region of the body from every type of tissue down to the cellular level.

The meridian system is like a highway system for transporting energy throughout the body. It is very similar to an electrical circuit that allows electricity to be transported throughout your home or the electrical circuits that allow your smartphone to function. If something deteriorates these circuits the overall system will malfunction or cease to function altogether.

Health, wellness, longevity and outstanding athletic performance depend on how efficient the meridian system is in transporting the body’s life energy or Qi to each of the organs and to every region, tissue and membrane in the body.

At Meridian Harmonics we have designed a proprietary method for determining various measurements of your body’s vitality. Schedule your assessment today!

Recovery and Rehabilitation

Recovery from and injury, accident or even a surgical procedure requires a multifaceted approach. In Chinese medicine, it involves using all the strategies to resolve and restore healthy tissue to the injury or surgical site. At Meridian Harmonics and Yoga Harmonics, we will use all the tools at our disposal to return damaged tissue to healthy tissue, restore proper range of motion, minimize pain and discomfort during the process, and maximize strength and vitality.