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A 36-year-old member asked:

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

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Dr. Heidi Fowler
Psychiatry 27 years experience
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).
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Could acupuncture cure tennis elbow and shoulder bone spur?

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Dr. Barry Waldman
Orthopedic Reconstructive Surgery 31 years experience
Very unlikely: But it's also unlikely to do any harm, if practiced correctly.
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