Acupuncture is used extensively in sport related injury.
A fellow acupuncturists alerted me to this paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6362684/
“Safety is paramount” is my maxim, so some acupuncture points around the knee joint may be avoided. Electroacupuncture to the muscles around the knee seems to be very affective for all sorts of knee pain. Patients report lengthy periods free of pain from Osteoarthritis of the knee. Three months or more without pain is not uncommon. I am now using 45 minutes of Electroacupuncture treatment time to good effect.
Have a great weekend!
Dr. Max