When you lead a physically energetic life with such activities as walking, jogging or some other sports to keep in shape, you do increase your chances of an injury. One of the most frustrating to treat is calf pain. The lower half of your leg is the calf muscle and when you hurt it in any way, the most immediate treatment is rest, ice, compression and elevation. However, you can speed up healing and alleviate pain through electronic acupuncture so you can get back to physically active lifestyle.
Types of Calf Pain
Typically, the most common calf pain injury is a pulled calf muscle which causes tiny tears in the muscle fibers. When you overextend your calf muscle beyond its stretching ability, tearing can occur and cause pain. This happens quite often in rigorous sports such as tennis or even running where you are stretching to make that impossible shot or lengthening your stride to beat someone in a race.
Sometimes, calf pain is caused by circulatory problems in the arteries or veins. Atherosclerosis can cause partial blockages in the arteries which can cause pain in the legs. This typically happens during physical activities when the body cannot get an adequate oxygenated blood supply to the calves to meet their needs. Sometimes, the veins do not pump the blood away from the calves fast enough which can cause a painful backup. In most instances, calf pain can be alleviated through electronic acupuncture, regardless of the cause.
How Electronic Acupuncture Works for the Pain
Traditional acupuncture uses needles to stimulate acupoints along the body to help restore the balance of qi or energy in your body. However, with electronic acupuncture, a handheld device with a wand is used to transmit electromagnetic impulses to these acupoints to accomplish the same job. It is less invasive than needles and it is something you can do on your own at home.
Your hand is intricately mapped with various acupuncture points, corresponding to different areas of your body. When your body's energy is interrupted by calf pain, there is probably swelling and inflammation around the acupoint areas of the leg, creating a blockage so energy cannot flow throughout the body properly. When you use the wand of an electronic acupuncture device to transmit electromagnetic pulses to the acupoints in the hand that correspond with the calf pain, you can break up that energy blockade in the calf and restore balance.
By simply improving energy flow, you can hasten the healing process. Endorphins are released to block pain receptors and an improvement in the flow of oxygenated blood in the leg area helps the torn muscle fibers knit up. Instead of looking at weeks and weeks of recovery for a basic calf pull, you can shorten that time frame - all thanks to the utilization of electronic acupuncture.
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