Olympic Athlete’s use Acupuncture to increase their Medal Chances

Many Olympians now use acupuncture on a regular basis to keep them in peak condition for competing in the Olympics. Athletes from Korea, the States and many other countries regularly have acupuncture to maintain health and fitness and to recover from injury as quickly as possible. Acupuncture has the added advantage of being totally natural so there are no side affects and therefore no risk of failing dope tests as a result.

“I have had lots of physical therapy, which takes a long time to effect a cure, but Oriental therapy works faster. My pain halved after a day,” Kim Yeon-koung from the Korean women’s volleyball team told Reuters.

” Now I receive (acupuncture)  therapy regularly even if I am not hurt as my body has experienced benefits which I think boost my performance,” said Kim,

Park Jung-geu from the men’s handball team said oriental medicine helped his muscles relax quickly.

“I can tell that I am getting better after being treated about three times, while physical therapy requires long, consistent treatment,” he said.Shin Joon-shik, chairman of a major traditional Korean hospital in Seoul, has treated high profile athletes such as soccer player Park Ji-sung, figure skating gold medallist Kim Yuna, baseball player Choo Shin-soo and golfer Paul Casey.

U.S. Athletes have also been using acupuncture over the years to increase their winning potential. Olympian and world vault champion McKayla Maroney from, California cites using acupuncture as a helpful tool for injury recovery. Maroney re-injured a toe that was broken at an Olympic training session in Chicago two months ago after receiving acupuncture she will be able to compete in the London Olympics. In the last summer Olympics, Gymnast Nastia Liukin took home the gymnastics women’s all-around Olympic gold medal after using acupuncture to recover from an ankle injury. Pole vaulter Jeremy Scott used acupuncture to help in the recovery of his knee and will be competing this year. Tennessee track and field Olympian Dee Dee Trotter trained extensively with the help of acupuncture and will compete in the London Summer Olympics. Five-time Olympian from Austin, Texas Amy Acuff cites the use of acupuncture as one of the reasons why she has lasted for many years in the injury prone sport of high jump. She will go for the gold in London.

Many of the men and women on the U.S.A.’s  archery team receive acupuncture as part of their training.

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Dave Shipsey