ASMWS #15 Achilles Tendonitis

Course overview

Achilles tendonitis is a repetitive stress injury characterized by pain, inflammation, and swelling of the achilles tendon and its sheath. The entire calf muscle group may be affected. Achilles injury is usually mid-tendon, about 2 to 6 centimeters proximal to its attachment to the calcaneus. This is usually a repetitive stress disorder due to the accumulation of micro-trauma. However, it may occur as an acute strain. In general, acupuncture is beneficial for most patients using proper treatment described in this webinar. Instructor Whitfield Reaves will discuss the use of local needling using the acupuncture sports medicine technique of “threading the tendon”, along with other adjacent and distal points. The practitioner should become much more familiar and confident with achiless tendonitis from the instruction and information of this webinar.