Drug-free, performance enhancing effects of acupuncture

One of the great and really interesting side benefits of acupuncture is its natural performance-enhancing ability.

An unfair advantage? Not really, because it utilises and facilitates the untapped potential that exists in us all, particularly with athletes and other sportsmen and women.

The extra 'edge' would normally lie dormant as a reserve. Now, through acupuncture, it can be accessed.

Athletes from swimmers to runners to tri-athletes are using the physical and mental stimulation and inner calmness created by acupuncture treatment to help them cross the 'pain barrier'. This barrier is crossed when an athlete generates enough endorphins ('happy hormones') to experience euphoric feelings and less pain. This usually happens after an hour of extreme effort.

Acupuncture treatment can get an athlete right up there before the event starts, creating an enormous psychological advantage and allowing performance to be enhanced through the relaxation of tight muscles and increased blood flow.

Acupuncture's potential for performance enhancement is enormous and its role in the sporting arena is being tapped by countless athletes and sports people anxious to get on with the game.

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