Million of people are affected by a debilitating injury of the forearm know as lateral epicondylitis, or tennis elbow. Tennis elbow has cut short many athletes careers, sometimes at the peak of their careers. Even though the ailment is know be the name tennis elbow less the five percent of all the diagnoses are for professional tennis players.

The easiest way to relieve tennis elbow is complete rest to the arm and the elbow. Easy it may sound but that is extremely difficult preposition for manual workers, sportsmen etc. Lots of therapeutic research has been performed by doctors the world over searching credible therapies to relieve the pain and restore the mobility in people suffering from this condition. Many alternative therapies have also been researched. On such alternative therapy for elbow pain is acupuncture.

In acupuncture it is believed that tennis elbow is caused by liver imbalances. This is a different understanding of the condition as taught to sports physiologists. The sports physiologists thought tennis elbow was caused by overexertion, resulting in shearing of tendons attaching muscles to the bone at the elbow joint.

An imbalance of Chi, the fundamental life force, in the liver is believed, by practitioners of acupuncture, to lead to dehydration of the tendons. With the addition of over-exertion, this dehydration can lead to shearing of the tendons. This shearing of the tendons results in tennis elbow. Acupuncture, as a natural treatment for tennis elbow, rebalances the Chi to keep tennis elbow from recurring.

When you go for tennis elbow treatment to an acupuncture practitioner he will observe your body and ask some questions and look at your tongue, feel your pulse, and do palpation. After his diagnosis he will insert needles on some specific points called "ashi" on the channel which runs from through the elbow to decongest the channel. This facilitates the free flow of Chi.

Various surveys which have been conducted prove the effect of acupuncture on pain. But there are millions of people who have cued of this painful condition successfully by using this traditional Chinese therapy.

Tennis elbow, which debilitates forelimb movement, has affected millions. It can be relieved with complete rest; which is difficult for sportspersons. Acupuncture is an alternative therapy for elbow pain which promises a way out of this. Practitioners of this therapy believe that imbalance of Chi in the liver causes dehydration of the tendons. This coupled with over-exertion leads to shearing of tendons resulting in tennis elbow. This natural treatment for tennis elbow relieves pain and removes the Chi imbalance, so that the condition doesn't recur. This traditional Chinese therapy has successfully helped millions get rid of this painful condition.