The first thing that comes to your mind with Chinese medicine is more likely than not is acupuncture treatment. Though acupuncture is a vital and integral part of Chinese medicine, it is only one of several sub-modalities that comprise this ancient healing tradition.
Acupuncture is one of the primary treatment and rehabilitation modalities in sports medicine today, but it is not the only one by far. All of the other modalities in Chinese medicine, including physical therapy, tui na massage, qi gong energy movement therapy, diet therapy and last but not least herbal therapy, are all available for the treatment of sports injuries. In fact. Chinese medicine emphasis a multi-treatment approach to healing, both acute and chronic sports relate injuries when many of these sub-modalities are continued.