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Acupuncture Treatment For Muscle Fatigue
Muscle fatigue occurs when the muscle fails to generate force. This inability disturbs people’s ability to perform their daily life activity. It often happens to people who have done excessive amounts of exercise or sporting activities. Muscle weakness may make you feel like one’s limbs feel heavy or that they can’t support your weight.
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SYMPTOMS
CAUSES
TREATMENTS
SYMPTOMS
Common symptoms of muscle fatigue are :
– Reduced Activity Levels
– Weak grips
CAUSES
The causes of muscle fatigue include :
– Mental health (psychiatric)
– Endocrine/Metabolic
– Drugs/Medications
– Heart and lung conditions
– Sleep problems
– Infectious diseases
– Chemicals and substances
– Vitamin deficiencies, mineral deficiencies, poisoning.
– Various diseases, conditions, states and treatments
– Chronic pain
TREATMENTS
Related Acupuncture Points :
GV26 CV24 GB34 LI1 LI4
Acupuncture Treatment For Muscle Fatigue
The traditional Chinese medicine practice says that muscle fatigue is caused by blockage of energy, blood and nutrition to the muscle. Also the disorder is caused by lack of nourishment of the internal organs. The treatment is as follow :
1. Lung Qi deficiency – S.I. 3/UB 62
2. Build Qi and Blood – GB 34 Bilaterally with GB 41, 40 and Liver 3
3. Build the Blood of the Liver – LI 9, 10
4. Move the Qi to release trapped heat – GB 20/21 bilaterally.
5. Build healthy qi – SP 6, ST 36
6. Tonify and Nourish the Pericardium, Heart, Liver and Kidney Shens – UB 13, 43, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23
7. Build Yang Qi – GV 4, 3, 8, 9, 14 with moxabustion
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Footnotes
- Muscle fatigue – Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_fatigue
- Signs & Symptoms of Muscle Fatigue | LIVESTRONG.COM, http://www.livestrong.com/article/189718-signs-symptoms-of-muscle-fatigue/
- Fatigue: Why Am I So Tired? – Medical News Today, http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/248002.php
- The Acupuncture Treatment of Muscle Atrophy | Gancao.net, http://www.gancao.net/case-studies/metabolic/muscle-atrophy-2325