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Sports acupuncture is a specialized approach that combines modern sports medicine techniques with traditional acupuncture to effectively treat pain, injuries, and movement dysfunctions. Whether you’re dealing with chronic pain, a sports injury, or muscle imbalances, this treatment helps restore optimal muscle function, improve blood flow, and accelerate recovery. Your Session Will Include: ... Read More

Sports acupuncture is a specialized approach that combines modern sports medicine techniques with traditional acupuncture to effectively treat pain, injuries, and movement dysfunctions. Whether you’re dealing with chronic pain, a sports injury, or muscle imbalances, this treatment helps restore optimal muscle function, improve blood flow, and accelerate recovery.

Your Session Will Include:

- Manual Muscle Testing Exam – We begin with a hands-on assessment to identify muscle imbalances, weaknesses, or overactive areas that may be contributing to your pain or limiting your movement. This ensures a precise, targeted treatment approach.

-Motor Point Acupuncture – Using acupuncture at motor points (where the nerve meets the muscle), we reset muscle function:

• If a muscle is weak, we activate and strengthen it.
• If a muscle is overactive or tight, we release and relax it.
This technique improves movement efficiency, reduces compensation patterns, and prevents further injury.

- Traditional Acupuncture for Pain Relief – In addition to motor point needling, traditional acupuncture techniques are used to further increase blood flow, reduce inflammation, and stimulate the body’s natural healing process.

- A Holistic, Performance-Based Approach – This treatment goes beyond just symptom relief. It’s designed to restore proper function, improve mobility, and optimize overall performance so you can move pain-free and prevent future injuries.

If you’re ready to break the cycle of pain and dysfunction, schedule an orthopedic acupuncture session today and experience the difference of a truly targeted, results-driven approach!

Myofascial Massage

A deep, results-driven treatment that targets the fascia—the connective tissue around muscles—to relieve pain, improve mobility, and correct structural imbalances. This is not a relaxing massage; it’s an intensive, hands-on approach designed to help your body move and function better. Ideal for chronic tension, postural issues, and injury recovery.

Laura Fry, MSc, LMBWT, CCC

Laura brings an extraordinary range of experience to Sports Acupuncturist—making her one of the most uniquely qualified myofascial release therapists you’ll ever meet. A former professional athlete, hippotherapist, and college professor in biochemical nutrition, she also holds international titles as a culinary competition winner. Her knowledge of the body, performance, and healing runs deep—and wide.

Like many of our patients, Laura’s journey began with her own struggle with chronic pain. After exhausting conventional options, she found lasting relief in an unexpected place: fascia therapy. That experience changed everything—and led her down a path to become an expert herself.

Today, Laura holds advanced certifications in John Barnes Myofascial Release, one of the most respected and intensive approaches in the field. Her sessions blend science, intuition, and experience to create powerful, lasting change in the body. With a sharp understanding of biomechanics and a deep, intuitive touch, she helps release stuck fascia, reduce (and often eliminate) pain, and restore full, natural movement.

Laura’s work isn’t just therapy—it’s transformation.

Laura brings an extraordinary range of experience to Sports Acupuncturist—making her one of the m... Read More

Dr. Lijana Shestopal, DTCM, C.SMA

Dr. Lijana Shestopal DTCM, L.Ac, C.SMA is an Illinois State Licensed Acupuncturist and a board certified herbalist. She is a Diplomat in Oriental Medicine as certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). Dr. Lijana Shestopal graduated with her master’s degree in Oriental Medicine from Midwest College of Oriental Medicine in Chicago, and completed doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Five Branches University in California.

In addition to her extensive training in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lijana Shestopal is also one of only 160 practitioners worldwide that has completed a Certified Sports Medicine Acupuncture Specialist® program.

Dr. Lijana Shestopal DTCM, L.Ac, C.SMA is an Illinois State Licensed Acupuncturist and a board ce... Read More

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