--- title: "Harry Kane credits electrical acupuncture with transforming his injury record" date: 2026-11-11T13:50:00-05:00 categories: ["opinion"] url: https://tacticsjournal.com/2026/11/11/harry-kane-s-private-doctor-spends-a-week-every-month-treating-him-with-electrical-acupuncture/ --- # Harry Kane credits electrical acupuncture with transforming his injury record Asked [whether his acupuncture work with Dr. Alejandro Elorriaga Claraco transformed him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghmd8SkxRCQ&t=757s) after years of ankle and hamstring injuries, Harry Kane said: > Yeah, without a doubt. I tore my hamstring pretty much off the bone in 2020, I believe, and that was off the back of having many ankle injuries and rarely having a full season where I was fit. > > We got in touch, then started working a few months later. COVID happened, so it gave me, I think, seven months between my injury and getting back playing again, which looking back gave me the time I maybe needed to get the help. > > And then from that moment we pretty much work every month for a few days, with all the needles, a lot of nervous system stuff. Honestly, I don't know if I'd be at this stage in my career without that work and without him. > > It was an incredible find, I guess. Not everyone's lucky enough to maybe find someone like that who can help them at that stage in their career. On [the results of his treatments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghmd8SkxRCQ&t=820s): > The results, and I think just the facts, are there. I think I've maybe missed, you know, around 10, 15 games in the last seven years, and the previous seven years was more around 60, 70 games. > > So just from that point of view, I know it's worked, and just the level I'm playing at at 33 years old just tells me that everything we're doing is on the right track. In a separate lecture, Claraco [explained the goal of his treatments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo4rWQJLzjo&t=4313s): > The ultimate goal of most treatments is to vasodilate, improve perfusion, and then let the cells regulate themselves with the new energy and the new temperature that facilitates activity. On [repeated treatments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo4rWQJLzjo&t=3026s): > Repeated treatments are like exercise. They will reinforce the aspects involved in the response to that given input. On [his treatment philosophy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo4rWQJLzjo&t=2567s): > The power is in the body, not in the tools. Kane was also asked [whether he could emulate Wayne Rooney by moving deeper into midfield](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghmd8SkxRCQ&t=585s) as he gets older: > Maybe, yeah. I think it's possible for me to play in midfield, no doubt. I think it kind of depends on the system that you play, the coach you're playing for. > > Right now, you know, I have a lot of freedom in where I can go, where I can move. So although I'm a striker on paper, I think I play in many different positions on the pitch, and I kind of find the space where I think it's going to affect the game and use my different qualities to help the team. > > But also, it then allows me to arrive in the box in different areas, and I'm not so easy to pick up for defenders. > > I think I'd always be a player that wants to score 30, 40, 50 goals a season, and I think any manager out there would probably see me as that type of player. > > But I guess time will tell, and there might be a time where it will suit the team to drop a little bit deeper. But right now that free role I have is working really well. He basically is a midfielder today. Just don't ask him to play as a fullback. --- Previous post: [Freedom to fail](https://tacticsjournal.com/2026/11/11/freedom-to-fail.md) --- Web page: https://tacticsjournal.com/2026/11/11/harry-kane-s-private-doctor-spends-a-week-every-month-treating-him-with-electrical-acupuncture/ Every post and page as Markdown: https://tacticsjournal.com/llms.txt