I have been blown away. The information given this weekend has been fantastic The ability of Dr Ma to simplify the information has been amazing. Finbarr Harrington, PT, Ireland

An EXCELLENT course!! The atmosphere was great, the techniques were fantastic, and the hands-on learning cannot be beat! I will start applying what I have learned immediately.
T. Sheykhet, PT, DPT, Colorad0

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

What you will learn makes the book priceless. Dr. Ma gets the nervous system firing, the clinician excited and makes the athlete say “WOW” after receiving his Advance Dry Needling Therapy.

Dr. Clayton Gibson, III, M.S.A., D.C., Personal Physician to Elite, Olympic and Professional Athlete’s NFL, NBA, MLB, USATF and NCAA

: Dr. Ma blends his many years of experience with his rich scientific background in bringing his unique system of Trigger Point Dry Needling to the sports world.  Whether treating an acute sprain or strain, joint edema, delayed onset muscle soreness, or overtraining syndrome, I am thrilled to have this new tool to utilize in getting the elite and recreational athletes I treat back to competition quicker than ever.  This course will revolutionize our profession and I can’t wait to put Dr. Ma’s methods into practice.
Robert Ohashi DPT, OCS, ATC, CSCS, Performance Physical Therapist, Athletes’ Performance

“I have attended many courses where the instructors do not teach the practitioners what is needed for them to practice effectively in one course. They break the information into many courses that make it costly, time consuming and difficult for the practitioners to attend. 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.

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 for physical therapists for the most affordable price. Based at Dr Yun-tao Ma's 40 years of NEEDLING, CLINICAL and REASEARCH experience and at his textbooks, our courses present
one-of-a-kind dry needling techniques and dry needling treatments procedures. We presenting also new treatment concepts and new needling techniques from Dr MA’s textbook Dry Needling for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation, Elsevier, 2010

Our course is meeting all requirements for Dry Needling Practice by Physical Therapists
.Att: for Colorado PT's - 46 hour course.


Our evidence-based Integrative Systemic Dry Needling course offered mechanism –based dry needling techniques and treatment procedures 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 that present an Integrative Dry Needling System 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:

• Biomedical acupuncture (a.k.a. dry needling) presents a systemic approach and explains the mechanism of Dry Needling and different techniques for ALL types of myofascial pain
• 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
• 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

Biomedical Acupuncture for Pain Management
Yun-tao Ma, Mila Ma, Zang Hee Cho, Elsevier, 2005

Course Manual (will be provided during the course)

Suggested reading:

Biomedical Acupuncture for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation, DRY NEEDLING TECHNIQUES, Elsevier,2010

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.