There has been a number of stories about acupuncture being used by Olympic athletes. Indeed for the first time acupuncture is being offered at Olympic Village.
Tony Smith, the Canadian Gymnastics Team coast decided to try it for chronic lower back pain, after nothing else she had tried helped, and was “amazed” at the results. She is now recommending it to her athletes. Read more about it here.
In this short video interview Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist in swimming Daniel Kowalski discusses his use of acupuncture to recover from injuries and general health maintenance.
Another interesting acupuncture story is about a 60 year old acupuncturist named Wei, from Guangxi province, who set out to demonstrate his patriotism, and break a worlds record by inserting 2008 decorative acupuncture needles in his head face and chest. The previous record, according to the article, was 1790 set in 2004. That’s pretty amazing considering the human body has only about 350 main points, not including some of the micro-systems used on the hands and ears!