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Is it possible that acupuncture cure tennis elbow and shoulder bone spur?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Acupuncture will : Not heal a bone spur. However it can improve pain from a spur. Tennis elbow is often recurrent. Acupuncture can very effectively treat tennis elbow (but that doesn't always translate to a cure).

Answered 12/28/2013

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