It’s nice to know with all the modern medical techniques to help get injured ballplayers back on the field, the old methods sometimes work, too. Sometimes the really, really old and ancient methods.
Matt Duffy said he hopes to be back very soon, and credits acupuncture as one of the biggest reasons. The third baseman said he had a team-supervised acupuncture treatment recently, and while he still felt significant pain in his left Achilles tendon for a few days afterward which he said worried team doctors, all of a sudden the pain dissipated significantly after about four days and he felt more progress than he’d had since leaving the lineup on June 19.