Acupuncture and Dry Needling therapy at Charlotte Sports Performance and Rehab is used in the treatment of injuries and pain relief for our athletes. 

It is an effective therapy for:

• relieving muscle pain and spasm
• improving circulation to tense or injured tissues
• promoting healing of tendon and ligament strains
• chronic sports injuries
• releasing scar tissue

Clinical studies on the benefits of acupuncture show that it successfully treats conditions ranging from musculoskeletal problems (back pain, neck pain, and others) to insomnia, anxiety, digestive symptoms, headaches, migraines, to infertility. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Acupuncture successfully treats a variety of medical conditions, such as:

• Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
• Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
• Biliary colic
• Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
• Dysentery, acute bacillary
• Dysmenorrhoea, primary
• Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
• Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
• Headache
• Hypertension, essential
• Hypotension, primary
• Induction of labour
• Knee pain
• Leukopenia
• Low back pain
• Malposition of fetus, correction of
• Morning sickness
• Nausea and vomiting
• Neck pain
• Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
• Periarthritis of shoulder
• Postoperative pain
• Renal colic
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sciatica
• Sprain
• Stroke
• Tennis elbow