Pain Management.
Course description and Course objectives.
Intra-neuro-muscular advanced techniques

We don't need to say that our course is one-of-a-kind. Our students say it for us

"Dr. Yun-tao Ma’s virtually painless dry needling techniques allow for dynamic treatment of the body as a whole. I am amazed at the body’s reaction to Dr Ma’s dry needling - the rapid reduction of pain, edema and muscle spasm which in turn restores proper postural alignment enhancing total body function" Janine K. Rodriguez, PT, CO, 25 years of experience

Phoenix, AZ, May “It is extraordinary. Since I've been back I've been using the Dry Needling on almost all my patients and it is unbelievable how good it works! I'm so happy I took Dr Ma's course . Just wanted to give you a little feedback .Mylène Caron, BScPT, Capitaine, Défense Nationale

Boulder, CO June " The information is invaluable and it makes me think a great deal about the way I practice and the core skills and techniques I employ on a daily basis
I think this is what sets your training apart from other courses." Nicolas Allain

"While I was achieving good results incorporating dry needling with the management of injuries, it was not until I had contact with Dr Ma, and started using the correct techniques, that I noted the recovery time for contusions, strains and sprains was nothing less than amazing." Tim Cooper, PT for Australian Rules Football Team, Australia

What you will learn makes the book and the course priceless. Dr. Ma gets the nervous system firing, the clinician excited and makes the athlete say “WOW” after receiving his Advance Dry Needling Therapy." Clayton Gibson, III, Personal Physician to Elite, Olympic and Professional Athlete’s NFL, NBA, MLB, USATF and NCAA

Atlanta, April 16-18, 2010 course " It was a great breath of relief to have a leader in a Dry Needling field provide an educational workshop without all the ego and self sensationalism! Dr Ma is truly patient centered care practitioner with only one purpose...to increase the quality of life of any individual coming his way . Dr. Jeremy D. Busch, C.E.O. Integrative Health , Inc.

I have attended many courses where the instructors do not teach the practitioners what is needed for them to practice effectively in one course. Dr. Ma shared his knowledge generously in one course to the level that I felt very comfortable using integrative dry needling the next day for my patients.”

“M.Reza Nourbakhsh PT, PhD, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy ,GA

Course description and Course objectives.
Intra-neuro-muscular advanced techniques

Integrative Systemic Dry Needling (ISDN) course for Pain Management presented
by Dr Yun-tao Ma, founder of American Dry Needling Institute, USA, Visiting Professor, International Dry Needling Course, Medical Schools Orsay, France.
Dr Yun-tao Ma is internationally recognized authority in the field of pain management, sports medicine and trauma rehabilitation.
Dr. Ma teaches Dry Needling courses in USA and worldwide.

American Dry Needling Institute offers the most comprehensive Integrative Systemic Dry Needling course .
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR TEACHER'S EXPERIENCE

Our course based at Dr Yun-tao Ma's 40 years of CLINICAL and REASEARCH experience (neuroscience research in National Institute of Health (NIH), his TEXTBOOKS published by Elsevier, 2005 and 2010; and experience working as pain specialist in the Postgraduate physical therapy program at the University of Iowa
Dr Ma's courses present one-of-a-kind dry needling techniques, dry needling treatments procedures and tried and tested detailed safety techniques. During Pain Management course we presenting also new treatment concepts and new needling techniques from Dr MA’s textbook on Dry Needling for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation, Elsevier, 2010

Our Certification course is meeting all requirements for Dry Needling Practice by Physical Therapists
.Att: for Colorado PT's we provide 46 hour Certification training ( TWO COURSES)
Certificates will be issued to participants after successful course completion and passing clinical examination

Our Integrative Systemic Dry Needling course offered dry needling techniques and unique treatment procedures developed by Dr Ma for different types of myofascial pain and other musculoskeletal pain.

Myofascial pain can be categorized into four types: (1) trigger points (2) muscle spasm, (3) muscle tension, and (4) muscle deficiency. Each type of myofascial pain requires different dry needling techniques and possesses its own healing pattern.

• We are the one and only course teaching different dry needling procedures to treat ALL types of myofascial pain, not only trigger points pain.
  ISDN represents effective needling techniques for resolving soft tissue dysfunction: 
  · inflammation,
  · contracture,
  · tissue adhesion,
  · microcirculatory and trophic deficiency and
  · biomechanical imbalance of musculoskeletal system.

ISDN incorporates:

• Integrative Systemic Dry Needling presenting a different techniques for ALL types of myofascial pain and explaining the mechanism of Dry Needling
  Special, as our student said "virtually painless' needling techniques
• Myofasical trigger point techniques by Drs. Travell, Simon, and Baldrey
• Intramuscular stimulation (IMS) by Dr. C. Chan Gun
• We pay special attention to safety issues and teach detailed safety techniques to help our students be accident's free.
  Unfortunately, Colorado already has the first case in the U.S. of penumothorax caused by a physical therapist (NOT by Dr.Ma's student ) We could not over-emphasize importance of learning a proper safe needling techniques.

  "Dr. Ma blends his many years of experience with his rich scientific background in bringing his unique system of Integrative Dry Needling to the sports world.This course will revolutionize our profession." Robert Ohashi DPT, Athletes’ Performance, Phoenix, AZ

• Please see Course Evaluation for additional information

  Integrative Systemic Dry Needling significantly improves efficacy of physical medicine

Both external injuries and internal diseases affect the physiology and mechanical balance of the neuromusculoskeletal system.  Neuromusculoskeletal system imbalance causes or is caused by dysfunction of soft tissues. Research by Johns Hopkins University shows that manual therapy could be significantly more effective if soft tissue dysfunction is treated first. All malfunction of the musculoskeletal system in fact is related or directly caused by soft tissue dysfunction like nerves, muscles, fascia, tendon and ligament. 

Integrative Systemic Dry Needling is the new technique that organically combines different disciplines of medical fields representing a new medical modality. ISDN technique applies both analytical and synthetic approaches. In other words, ISDN treats both localized symptoms and systemic symptoms.

Required reading:

1. Biomedical Acupuncture for Pain Management
   Yun-tao Ma, Mila Ma, Zang Hee Cho, Elsevier, 2005
2. Biomedical Acupuncture for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation, DRY NEEDLING TECHNIQUES, Elsevier,2010
   3. Course Manual (will be provided during the course)
   
   Suggested reading:

Travell & Simon’s Myofascial Pain and dysfunction: The trigger point manual. 2nd ed., Lippincott  Williams & Wilkins, 1999.

Gunn Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Pain: Intramuscular  Stimulation for Myofascial Pain of Radiculopathic Origin. Churchill Livingstone, 1996.