Baseball and Acupuncture!

Chavez open to acupuncture
Slumping third baseman looking to heal forearm tendinitis
By Geoff Lepper, STAFF WRITER
Inside Bay Area

OAKLAND — As Eric Chavez’s swing has gone south, his mind has opened to medical possibilities from the Far East. The A’s third baseman said Monday that he was seriously considering undergoing acupuncture treatments for the first time to try and heal the forearm tendinitis that has wracked his season.

“I’m willing to give it a try,” Chavez said, pulling from his locker a letter with a reference for an East Bay acupuncturist — one of many pieces of unsolicited advice he’s received since his pain became public.

Chavez was slated to meet Monday with A’s trainer Larry Davis and team doctors Jerrald Goldman and Allan Pont to discuss potential new avenues of diagnosis and treatment. Tried-and-true methods like rest, ice, stim and massage haven’t worked to anyone’s satisfaction, even with Chavez getting a full week of inactivity earlier this month.

“All we’re doing is treading water right now,” Davis said. “I would expect for him to have shown more improvement than he’s shown to this point. The fact that he hasn’t is a little bit concerning.”

Asked specifically about the potential for acupuncture, Davis — who has had former players use the treatments — shared Chavez’s open mind.

“At this point, I would explore anything,” Davis said. “Thousands of people have done that and it seems to work. There’s not a lot that I wouldn’t try in this case.”
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Jeanie Marie Kraft, L.Ac. MyAcuDoc.com

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