Acupuncture for Pain Relief • Sports Injuries • Women’s Health Support

At the Foot, Knee and Back Clinic, acupuncture is used to help reduce pain, calm irritated tissues and support recovery, either as a stand-alone treatment or combined with physiotherapy, podiatry, gait analysis, orthotics and rehab exercise.

When acupuncture can help

Acupuncture is particularly useful when you need:

• Pain relief (low back, knee, foot, hip, neck and shoulders) so you can move more comfortably
• Reduced muscle guarding and spasm
• Support during muscle, tendon, and ligament rehab
• Help with sleep, stress, anxiety and headaches
• Support for menstrual symptoms and menopause-related sleep disruption

If you’re unsure which appointment to choose, call or text and tell us your symptoms and goals, and we’ll guide you.

Acupuncture for pain and musculoskeletal problems

Back pain, neck and shoulder pain, joint and muscle pain

We commonly treat:

• Low back pain (including buttock pain and sciatica-type symptoms)
• Neck and shoulder tension
• Hip and gluteal pain
• Knee pain (including runner’s knee/patellofemoral pain and osteoarthritis symptoms)
• Foot and ankle pain (including metatarsalgia, plantar heel pain and ankle sprains)
• Myofascial pain/trigger points (calf tightness, hamstrings, hip flexors, upper traps)

Acupuncture often works best when combined with a clear plan for movement, strengthening and load management.

Sports acupuncture in Long Eaton

Sports injuries, overload pain and return-to-training support

If you’re training but pain is limiting you, acupuncture can help you transition from “too sore to train” to “able to rehab properly”.

We often use acupuncture to:

• Reduce pain and muscle tone so movement quality improves
• Settle reactive tendon pain to tolerate strengthening
• Improve range of motion when guarding is limiting you
• Support a graded return-to-run/return-to-sport plan

Common sports conditions we see:

• Achilles tendinopathy
• Hamstring injuries
• Neck and shoulder injuries
• Plantar heel pain/plantar fasciitis
• Runner’s knee/patellofemoral pain
• ITB-related lateral knee pain
• Shin splints (MTSS)
• Ankle sprains and recurrent lower-limb “niggles”

We can combine acupuncture with:

• Rehab exercise and a progressive loading plan
• Manual therapy, if appropriate
• Gait analysis and footwear/orthotic guidance where biomechanics contribute to overload

Performance enhancement (sports support)

Many athletes opt for acupuncture as a means to enhance recovery and bolster their sporting performance, particularly when navigating periods of intense training. Whether you’re aiming to smash your personal best or simply seeking to optimise your progress, be it as a professional or a keen amateur, acupuncture can be a means of significantly improving your performance. In our clinic, this approach typically involves targeted strategies designed to help you:

• Reduce the amount of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) so that you can train hard and recover quickly following intense exercise or between bouts.
• Significantly improve cardiorespiratory performance in endurance athletes (improve your PB)
• Reduce muscle tightness and restore normal tone
• Enhance muscle strength and efficiency
• Improve cardiorespiratory performance
• Improve the quality of sleep and recovery
• Manage training-related pain (without masking serious injury)
• Address recurrent niggles that limit volume or intensity

Performance support works best when we pair acupuncture with:

• Training-load planning (progressions)
• Strength and mobility targeting weak links
• Footwear and orthotic strategies were appropriate

Tendon and overuse problems

Achilles, plantar fascia, patellar tendon and more

Tendon pain often improves fastest when you have two things working together:

1. a sensible loading programme, and
2. help settle tissue sensitivity so you can start rehab sooner.

Acupuncture can be valuable in the early reactive stage and during flare-ups to help you keep progressing with strengthening rather than stopping completely.