Acupuncture for sports and trauma rehabilitation : dry needling techniques /
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. Evidenc...
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| Language: | English |
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St. Louis, Mo. :
Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier,
©2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Integrative systemic dry needling or dry needling : a new modality for athletes
- Homeostasis and stress in sports and exercise
- Human brain plasticity, sports, and sports injuries
- Musculoskeletal systems and human movement
- Overtraining syndrome and the use of muscle in exercise
- Clinical mechanisms of integrative systemic dry needling
- Physiology of acu-reflex points
- Neuroanatomy of acu-reflex points
- Homeostatic acu-reflex point system
- Trigger points and the integrative neuromuscular acu-reflex point system
- Visceral pain and visceral-somatic reflexes
- Pathomechanics of the musculoskeletal system and acu-reflex points
- Using dry needling acupuncture for preventing injury and enhancing athletic performance
- General principles of treating soft tissue dysfunction in sports injuries
- Preventive and therapeutic treatment of injuries in selected sports
- Safety issues in dry needling acupuncture practice.