Dry Needling Course

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND COURSE OBJECTIVES

Dr Yun-tao Ma’s Advanced Dry Needling Sports and Trauma  Rehabilitation course for physical therapy is designed for  Physical Therapists, Doctors of Chiropractic and other clinical practitioners involved in the prevention and treatment of sports injuries, chronic and acute pain, post -surgery treatments and movement dysfunctions in athletes, military personnel and non-athlet patients. It is aimed at practitioners aspiring to help athletes achieve optimal balance and superior performance and to produce “bullet proof” athletes.

Dr Ma will present the simple, detailed procedures and virtually pain free dry needling techniques for the detection and normalization of soft tissue dysfunction, the prevention of chronic sports injuries and the maintenance of homeostasis of human posture and movement.

Dr Yun-tao Ma’s course presents his own clinical procedures and techniques for treatment, management and prevention of most common sports injuries:

· acute and chronic soft tissue dysfunction,

· delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS),

· tissue edema,

· compartment syndrome,

· soft tissue remodeling (reducing scar tissue),

· overtraining symptoms, etc.

·· growth of bone spurs (apophysis)

·  stress fractures.

With routine de-stress treatments developed by Dr Ma you’ll help athletes, professional or recreational, to maximize and enhance their physical performance at all stages of their sporting lives and greatly prolong their sports careers.

The same techniques can also be applied to non-athlete patients for routine pain management and rehabilitation.

Dr Yun-tao Ma’s hands-on clinical workshop includes:

· understanding specificity of clinical treatment of athlete vs. non-athlete patients.

· understanding the concept of pain management in sports medicine, which is different from the neurological concept of pain management for non-athlete patients.

· one-of-a-kind needling and treatment procedures to facilitate maximal recovery from training and competition and to reduce recovery time needed to return athletes to competition and patients to normal life.

* de-stress procedure to restore musculoskeletal homeostasis and optimal biomechanics which will improve and enhance physical performance and prevent common soft tissue injuries in all sports, creating a “bullet proof” athlete

* treatment procedures for both regionalized symptoms and their systemic influence over the entire musculoskeletal system. This approach can be successfully used for both treating and preventing myofascial symptoms and for facilitating range of motion in both athlete and non-athlete patients.

* Dr Ma’s systemic dry needling treatment protocol for treatment of various soft tissue injuries associated with popular sports: running, cycling, triathlon, baseball, basketball, football, swimming, tennis, volleyball, golf, soccer, boxing, martial arts etc

You’ll learn, among other subjects, the following dry needling procedures for physical therapy developed by Dr Ma:

• Needling technique for biomechanical balancing of human musculoskeletal system
• Treatment of delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and overtraining syndrome (OTS).
• Treatment of common soft tissue dysfunction in sport injuries: contusion, swelling, tendinitis and other soft tissue dysfunctions.
• One-of-a-kind  techniques for fascial release.
• Prevention/ treatment  of chronic injuries: Tendinitis, tendon avulsion, stress fracture, and bone spur formation (apophysis) in athletes.
• Procedures for improving micro-circulatory deficiency and reducing cellular aging in the athlete
• Dr Ma’s Integrative Dry Needling Course / Dry Needling for Physical Therapy presents the proprietary clinical techniques and procedures to treat / prevent trauma and substantially improve physical performance to give athletes the edge over their competitors.