Biomedical Acupuncture for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation:Dry Needling Techniques

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Written by widely respected acupuncture expert Yun-tao Ma, PhD, LAc, Biomedical
Acupuncture for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation shows techniques that will enhance
athletic performance, accelerate recovery after intensive workouts, and speed trauma
rehabilitation after injuries or surgeries. Evidence-based research is used to support the best
and most effective techniques, with over 100 illustrations showing anatomy, injury, and
clinical procedures. Unlike many other acupuncture books, this book uses a Western
approach to make it easier to understand rationales, master techniques, and integrate
biomedical acupuncture into your practice.
“Finally, a well-referenced, common sense approach to dry needling in sports medicine that
discusses maintenance, overtraining, and the effect of the stress response in athletes. This is
a long-awaited book that will leave you feeling comfortable with a technique that is very
useful not only for athletes, but for all patients of your practice.”
Rey Ximenes, MD
The Pain and Stress Management Center
Austin, Texas
“For any clinician involved with assisting athletes recover from injury, as well as providing
services to enhance physical performance, this text will be indispensable. This book is a
major accomplishment in the field of sports injury and treatment of musculoskeletal and
neurological pain.”
Mark A. Kestner, DC, FIAMA, CCSP, CSCS
Kestner Chiropractic & Acupuncture Center
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
 Unique! Explores acupuncture treatments for sports injuries in the acute phase,
rehabilitation, and prevention.
 Includes acupuncture for performance enhancement and injury prevention, emphasizing
pre-event acupuncture used to help increase muscle output, assist with pre-competition
stress, and prevent soft tissue injury.
 Provides evidence-based research to show the science behind the best and most effective
techniques, based on the author’s background in neuroscience and cell biology and his 35
years of clinical acupuncture experience.
 Offers an overview of the science of biomedical acupuncture including the mechanisms of
acupuncture, anatomy and physiology of acupoints, and discussion of human healing
potential.
 Uses terminology and concepts familiar to Western-trained health professionals, making
the material easier to understand and incorporate into practice.
 Includes more than 100 illustrations showing anatomy, injury, and clinical procedures.
 Covers useful techniques including those that increase muscle force output, joint flexibility
and stability; prevent sports injuries like muscle sprain, tendonitis, bone strain,
stress/fatigue fracture and bone spurs; reinforce muscle output for specific sports;
normalize physiology of dysfunctional soft tissues; predict treatment response; reduce
physiological stress; use the new Vacuum Therapy for deep tissue dysfunctions; and
balance the biomechanics of musculoskeletal system