Acupuncture for shoulder sprains and strains
Acupuncture may contribute to relieve pain, relax tight muscles, reduce inflammation, and helps to increase range of shoulder motion.
Shoulder sprains and strains
The structures around shoulder like muscles, tendons and ligaments are working together to maintain shoulder strength and normal range of motion.
Ligaments directly connect bones around shoulder joint and keep stable and strength of the joint, while the tendons anchor muscles to the bones.
When the overstretch of the Ligaments or tear happens causes shoulder sprain. Shoulder strain often occurs when some fibers of muscles or tendons are tear.
The injuries can causes to the limitation of your shoulder movement, acute or chronic pain.
Acupuncture for shoulder pain
Acupuncture contributes to relieve pain, relax tight muscles, reduce inflammation, and helps to increase range of shoulder motion.
Other Chinse medicine therapies like cupping, guasha, tuina_massage, moxibustion, heat lamp infrared therapy, and herbal ointment or liniments are often combined with acupuncture for shoulder pain.
Triger point for shoulder pain
The trigger points for anterior shoulder pain involved muscles:
Infraspinatus, deltoid, scalene, supraspinatus, pectoralis major/minor, biceps brachii, coracobrachialis, latissimus dorsi
The trigger points for posterior shoulder pain related muscles:
Deltoid, levator scapulae, scalene, supraspinatus, teres major/minor, subscapularis, serratus posterior superior, latissimus dorsi, triceps, trapezius, iliocostalis
Around shoulder the rotator cuff muscles are the most important and easily to get hurt. The rotator cuff muscle group is composed of the following muscles:
- The Infraspinatus
- The Supraspinatus
- The Subscapularis
- The Teres Minor
Clinical experience has shown that the following three muscle groups are involved most often in shoulder injuries or shoulder pain:
- The Infraspinatus
- The Subscapularis
- The Trapezius
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