These conditions can always be treated with acupuncture. Even if the damaged area is to painful and sensitive to needle, acupuncture points further along the acupuncture channel can reduce pain and swelling quite dramatically.

Acupuncture will speed up recovery and give pain relief to strains and pains. It is one of the advantages of acupuncture that it is possible to treat strains and sprains that may be too painful to work on directly. Points may be chosen either side of the site of injury, further down the acupuncture channel, or sometimes the opposite part of the body is treated! This treatment works since the acupuncture channels form a continuous network, and by regulating the qi (energy) on one side, it will affect the opposite side.