At a prime of good reduction of an elliptic curve with residue characteristic not dividing , multiplication by extends to a finite étale map of the smooth proper elliptic group scheme over the valuation ring. A local rational point extends to a section by properness. Its division fibre is therefore a finite étale torsor, so the Kummer map of an elliptic curve gives an unramified cohomology class. This bounds ramification in the Weak Mordell-Weil theorem.
A direct proof describes the coordinates, not only the cohomology class. Reduce by properness and choose a point with over a finite extension of the residue field. Over the corresponding unramified extension of the complete local field, lift by the Hensel lemma. The error is in the kernel of reduction of an elliptic curve; prime-to-residue-characteristic multiplication on a formal group corrects it uniquely. There is no -torsion in that kernel, even after a ramified field extension, so every division point with that reduction equals this unramified lift. Consequently all division points of an elliptic curve above have unramified coordinate fields. The torsion case is discussed in J. S. Milne's Elliptic Curves, Chapter V, Proposition 8.1.
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