EHE Clinic & Wellness
Emotions Health Enlightenment
Located at VT CRC
Pains and Sport Injury
Dr. Joy Yang’s therapy can help athletes:
•Reduce pain immediately 50%-100% (during game or after game)
•Chronic pain can be totally gone after a series treatments.
•Boosts Performance, and increase energy
•Reduce Stress/anxiety
•Increasing muscle strength and power in athletes.
•Effective treatment for injury and prevention
Most patients feel much better (50% to 100% pain relief) after the first treatment, but to cut the "root" of pain takes time. Otherwise, the pain will be back.
(The following are several videos of patients' testimonies)
Acupuncture treatments usually have very good results for back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, or joint pain.
"The key to good results for pain treatment is finding the sources that cause the pain. Most people's pains are caused by stress and emotional issues. After I talked to my patients, I usually can find the real reason(s) that cause the pain, which sometimes they may not realize themselves.
"Local treatment of the pains is like cutting weeds. I can help release the pain temporarily. However, if the source is still there like the roots of a weed, it will come back. Identifying the source is the key.
"When I talk with my patients in the clinic in a quiet environment, I can usually feel their energy (Qi), and the emotions down deep in their mind. I often surprise my patients by telling them their true, hidden emotions.
"To release the pain temporarily is not difficult. What I want is for my patients to get better not only physically but also emotionally!
--Joy Yang
Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture for Athletes
Traditional Chinese Medicine has a very long history (over 2000 years) of effectively treating pain. Other benefits for athletes include: faster recovery, improved blood flow, muscle relaxation, better sleep and improved energy. Additionally, these athletes don’t have to worry about side effects or having drugs in their system.
Acupuncture and cupping of Traditional Chinese Medicine are the main method Dr. Yang used for athletes.
Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that has been practiced for centuries. Acupuncture is done by putting very thin needles into your skin at certain points on your body.
Cupping is a form of traditional Chinese Medicine that a therapist puts special cups on you skin for minutes to create suction, it removes harmful substances and toxins from the body to promote healing.
Acupuncture is helping our athletes capture the gold time and time again
This year at the 2012 London Olympics, as well as the last summer olympics, Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine prove to be a popular modality for injury rehabilitation, pain prevention and overall physical maintenance.
Check out which of your favorite athletes have incorporated acupuncture into their training programs…
a couple are actually licensed to practice the ancient healing art.
I love watching the races. Maybe because I’m extremely slow when it comes to running, but it’s exhilirating to watch such athletes take off like lightning with such passion and vigor. Miss Dee Dee was one of those “dashing” athletes.
Dee Dee Trotter, USA, Track runner
Dee Dee Trotter, one of the female atheletes for the U.S. track team, even brought her personal acupuncturist from Tennessee with her to the London Olympics. In the past, he’s treated her on the running track during meets. Now he’s there to treat her regularly with acupuncture and help keep her game on point!
The other part of the olympics I love watching are the gymnastics.
The things those gymnasts can do are nothing less than inspiring! And our U.S. women’s team proved to be “the best” this year!
McKayla Moroney, USA, Gymnastics
Olympian and world vault champion McKayla Maroney from Long Beach, California lists acupuncture as one of the helpful tools for her injury recovery after she re-injured a toe that was broken at an Olympic training session in Chicago just a few months ago.
In an interview she stated, “On my beam routine, my round-off dismount, I split my big right toe.” She even mentioned that this was the third time she injured the toe.
That’s when Mckayla shared, “I’m doing acupuncture and icing it like 30 times a day….It looks a lot better now.”
If you didn’t get a chance to see her team win the Gold
It was amazing!
The news reported that “the US was solid, if not spectacular in all the events, beginning with McKayla Maroney’s 16.23 vault score, the highest of the day”…
Her teammates (also pictured above) who helped snag the gold ending with three floor exercise scores at 15.0 or above were Gabby Douglas, Jordyn Wieber, and Aly Raisman.
The use of acupuncture by USA Olympians is not unusual.
Many competitors insist on having acupuncture as a part of their training
In the last summer Olympics, Gymnast Nastia Liukin took home the gymnastics women’s all-around Olympic gold medal after using acupuncture to recover from an ankle injury.
But wait, there’s more!
Jeremy Scott, USA, Pole Vaulter
Jeremy credits the addition of integrative medicine with acupuncture to his wellness and maintenance routine to have boosted his ability to “flourish” at the Olympic trials. He continues to use acupuncture to aid in the reduction of knee pain during competition.
Kim Yeon-koung, South Korea, Women’s Volleyball
“I have had lots of physical therapy, which takes a long time to affect a cure, but Oriental therapy works faster. My pain halved after a day,” Kim said of her recovery program.
Nicole Rasor, USA, Archery Team
Nicole Rasor, who kicked off her Olympic career on the 1984 diving team, re-joined the Americans in 2011 and 2012, this time as an archer. But, when she’s not training, Nicole is a licensed acupuncturist in Tucson, Ariz. If you know anything about me, you know how awesome I think that is with my competitive spirit and personal history with martial arts.
