Acupuncture for chronic Achilles tendnopathy: a randomized controlled study

[Vince]

I recently had a lot of pain coming from my Achilles tendon. I thought I would try acupuncture, so far it seems to be healing. Even though I'm on my feet all day at work, walking and climbing. Plus I'm still working out my calf muscles.

Acupuncture for chronic Achilles tendnopathy: a randomized controlled study - PubMed

Acupuncture intervention could improve pain and activity in patients with chronic Achilles tendinopathy compared with eccentric exercises.

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[Deleted member 43589]

Vince, both my wife and I had acupuncture done. We found an older Chinese man who's background covered his entire life and was taught by his father. I was very skeptical going in but it actually seemed to work. My wife even had him do some work on her insomnia and she has been sleeping well since then. I saw a video from China where they had done acupuncture as a method to anesthetize and then they actually preformed the surgery. Amazing. Its too bad insurance won't cover this treatment.