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Alternative Tennis Elbow Treatment Alternative tennis elbow treatments are for those tennis elbow cases that just won’t go away. If you’ve tried resting and icing your tennis elbow along with other established treatments and you still have pain, then you need to look into the alternatives. Surgery is a very serious and very final step to take, so you should try these alternatives before considering it. Aside from the reduced cost, these alternative tennis elbow treatments are non-invasive and do not have anywhere near the recovery time that surgery does. Trying these before surgery can save you time, money, and pain. By far the most widely known alternative treatment method is acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. In recent studies there has been some question about whether acupuncture indeed has a therapeutic effect when compared to a placebo (1), but an amazing number of people have been able to find relief from Acupuncture. As well as information about the treatment, I’ve also included some tips in that article to finding a competent acupuncturist, since there are so many crappy practitioners out there. Although trigger points are part of western medicine, they are generally not tried. And while I know that I make such a big deal of them on this site, I make that big deal since few people address them in a comprehensive manner and they complicate so many painful conditions. Try them yourself and if they aren’t a problem for you, drop them and move on to another treatment. Hot ginger compresses and hydrotherapy, while rarely cures in themselves, speed healing. These two alternative tennis elbow treatments are great complementally treatments that will help your primary, orthodox treatment method to do its job better. As far as Ayurvedic medicine, Homeopathy, Reiki, and other witch doctor treatments, I don’t hold with them. At least Chinese medicine has some basis in the physical body and (when properly practiced) is a physical medicine, while magic, crystals, and copper and magnetic bracelets and armbands are pure pseudo-science. There are more people trying to part you from your money out there than want to help you. Research before you spend your money and remember that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. There are more than enough real conventional treatments and very cheap home cures out there. I find that fixing problems myself, at low cost no less, gives me empowerment and the knowledge that I’m not perpetuating bullshit health practices. And the knowledge that I can take whatever comes my way. Which I think is pretty cool.
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