Lycoming Orthopedic & Sports Acupuncture

Lycoming Orthopedic & Sports Acupuncture LYCOACU is Lycoming County's Premier
Clinic for Acupuncture & Dry Needling

Groin strains in hockey players, soccer players, and martial artists recur for one reason: the adductors never get prope...
09/10/2026

Groin strains in hockey players, soccer players, and martial artists recur for one reason: the adductors never get properly rehabilitated.

Adductor strains are among the most mismanaged injuries in contact sports. The standard approach, rest, stretch, return to play, doesn't address the strength deficit that makes the tissue vulnerable in the first place. The adductor longus in particular needs progressive eccentric loading to restore tensile capacity. Without it, return to cutting, kicking, or explosive lateral movements will reproduce the strain. We assess and build the rehab plan around your sport's specific demands.

Share this with a hockey player or soccer player who keeps re-straining the same groin.

Muscle inhibition is one of the most common and least discussed causes of chronic athletic injury.When a muscle is inhib...
09/03/2026

Muscle inhibition is one of the most common and least discussed causes of chronic athletic injury.

When a muscle is inhibited — meaning it fails to activate properly under load — surrounding muscles compensate. Over training cycles, those compensating muscles become overloaded and injury-prone. The inhibited muscle rarely hurts. The muscles covering for it are the ones that get strained, torn, or chronically tight. Electroacupuncture and corrective exercise targeting the inhibited muscle specifically is how we break that cycle.

Save this post if you've ever had a muscle strain that keeps coming back despite doing all the right rehab.

The difference between a strain and a tear matters for how you train around it. ⚡A muscle strain is partial disruption o...
08/27/2026

The difference between a strain and a tear matters for how you train around it. ⚡

A muscle strain is partial disruption of fibers, painful, but trainable with appropriate load modification. A tear involves significant structural disruption and may require imaging and medical evaluation before loading. Most athletes don't know which they have because most athletes don't get assessed. Training through an undiagnosed tear accelerates the damage. Training appropriately around a strain supports healing. The assessment is what makes the difference.

Save this post for anyone in your training group who's currently guessing about an injury.

Tennis elbow doesn't only affect tennis players. It affects anyone whose forearm extensors are overloaded. 💪Lateral epic...
08/13/2026

Tennis elbow doesn't only affect tennis players. It affects anyone whose forearm extensors are overloaded. 💪

Lateral epicondylalgia is the clinical term, and it describes tendon degeneration at the attachment site of the wrist extensor muscles. It's common in manual workers, climbers, lifters, and desk workers who use a mouse all day. The tendon isn't inflamed in the traditional sense. It's degenerated and poorly vascularized, which is why anti-inflammatories and rest produce temporary relief at best. Dry needling to the affected tendon stimulates the healing response the tissue needs.

Tag someone who's been dealing with outer elbow pain and has been told to just take a break from it.

Your pain site and your pain source are often two different places.This is one of the most misunderstood concepts in mus...
08/06/2026

Your pain site and your pain source are often two different places.

This is one of the most misunderstood concepts in musculoskeletal care. The hip that aches during squats might be reacting to restricted ankle mobility. The shoulder that flares during lifting might be compensating for a weak rotator cuff on the opposite side. Treating the site alone rarely resolves the pattern.

Our EXSTORE assessment traces the full chain of dysfunction so nothing gets missed. Save this — it changes how you think about every injury.

Your posture at work is creating the injury pattern you'll deal with at the gym.Sustained desk posture, forward head, ro...
07/30/2026

Your posture at work is creating the injury pattern you'll deal with at the gym.

Sustained desk posture, forward head, rounded thoracic spine, hip flexors in shortened position for 6-8 hours, doesn't reset when you walk into the gym. You bring those patterns to every squat, press, and pull. Your body tries to access ranges of motion it hasn't had all day. Something absorbs the deficit. Understanding this connection is the first step to addressing it.

Drop a 🙋 if this describes your workday and your training week.

Manual workers have athletic injury patterns. They just don't call them that.Repetitive overhead reaching, sustained gri...
07/23/2026

Manual workers have athletic injury patterns. They just don't call them that.

Repetitive overhead reaching, sustained grip loading, and prolonged asymmetrical postures create the same muscle inhibition and compensation patterns we see in overhead athletes. Warehouse workers, tradespersons, and laborers develop rotator cuff dysfunction, wrist extensor overload, and lumbar instability from accumulated occupational stress in exactly the same way. The assessment and treatment approach is the same, because the biomechanics are the same.

Tag a tradesperson or manual worker who's been told to "just take ibuprofen and rest."

07/18/2026

🌟 Fourteen years of pain. One decision to take back her life.

For 14 years, Megan lived with chronic head, neck, and back pain after a devastating fall during a roller derby event. She tried to push through the pain, but it continued to impact her daily life.

Through a personalized orthopedic acupuncture treatment plan, everything began to change.

Today, Megan is moving better, hurting less, and enjoying life again. Her journey is a powerful reminder that even long-standing pain doesn’t have to be permanent.

Every patient has a different story, but one thing remains the same: the body has an incredible capacity to heal when given the right stimulus.

Thank you, Megan, for trusting me to be part of your recovery. Your determination and commitment have been inspiring, and I’m honored to have helped you reclaim your quality of life.

If you’ve been living with chronic pain for months—or even years—don’t assume it’s something you have to accept. There may be another path forward.

07/18/2026

🌟 Fourteen years of pain. One decision to take back her life.

For 14 years, Megan lived with chronic head, neck, and back pain after a devastating fall during a roller derby event. She tried to push through the pain, but it continued to impact her daily life.

Through a personalized orthopedic acupuncture treatment plan, everything began to change.

Today, Megan is moving better, hurting less, and enjoying life again. Her journey is a powerful reminder that even long-standing pain doesn’t have to be permanent.

Every patient has a different story, but one thing remains the same: the body has an incredible capacity to heal when given the right stimulus.

Thank you, Megan, for trusting me to be part of your recovery. Your determination and commitment have been inspiring, and I’m honored to have helped you reclaim your quality of life.

If you’ve been living with chronic pain for months—or even years—don’t assume it’s something you have to accept. There may be another path forward.

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