See detailed Course description and Course objectives below

Dr Yun-tao Ma's dry needling course aka intramascular manual therapy presents one-of-a-kind dry needling techniques, dry needling treatments procedures and tried and tested detailed safety techniques.
Treatment procedures are developed by Dr Ma and can be learned only at his course.
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How it works: Phoenix (July):"On the Monday morning when I got back from Dr. Ma’s Pain Management course, I tried Dr Ma's dry needling technique out on one our NBA pre-draft guys who had a 9-year history of bilateral exertional compartment syndrome in the past, nothing had worked for him. When we were done the athlete’s response was, “I don’t feel any different.” The next morning he came into the facility yelling, “Momma, if I would have had your phone number I would have yelled at you!” I started to panic, thinking that something must have gone wrong. He propped his leg up on the table and started poking at his anterior compartment. He had gone from hard as a rock to normal, pliable muscle tissue overnight."Sheri Walters, PT, Athletic performance

The American Dry Needling Institute presents one-of-a-kind dry needling techniques and dry needling treatments procedures based at Dr Yun-tao Ma's 40 years of CLINICAL and RESEARCH experience (neuroscience research in National Institute of Health (NIH), his TEXTBOOKS published by Elsevier, 2005 and 2010; and experience working in the Physical Therapy department at the University of Iowa ,Dept. of experimental Therapeutics U. of Maryland Medical Scholl, Medical Faculty, Paris XI (Orsay) University, Paris,France.
Advanced Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation course presents new developed by Dr Ma advanced dry needling treatment concepts and clinical procedures.The course is based at Dr MA’s textbook on Dry Needling for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation, Elsevier, 2010 Note: Many treatment procedures presented during our course are not included in the textbook.

Att: for Colorado PT's and DC's– 46-hours training is required for CO certification. (TWO COURSES)
Certificates will be issued to participants after successful course completion and passing clinical examination
“ 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 advanced Dry Needling therapy” - Dr Clayton Gibson, Personal Physician to Elite, Olympic and Professional Athletes

Medical doctors, physical therapists, chiropractors, from Alaska, Colorado, Cayman Islands, New York, Georgia, Ohio, Arkansas - well-prepared uber-motivated group of dedicated professionals; many are working with elite athletes and professional sports teams. Boulder, Colorado, 2010.

 "Finally, a well-referenced, commonsense 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 ,Sports and Stress Management Center, Austin, Texas

   “Presently we have a great confusion of various ideas regarding Dry Needling. Dr Yun-tao Ma's book is destined to play a truly integrating role, explaining the mechanism of dry needling, offering a system for practical application and clarifying misunderstandings...   Peter Lundgren, Physiotherapist, Director AKNA Institute, Sweden

 “Dr Ma’s book and course provide a simple, detailed and proven process for detecting and correcting soft tissue dysfunction, preventing chronic sports injuries and maintaining homeostasis.”  Dr Clayton Gibson, III, Personal Physician to Elite, Olympic and Professional Athletes 

   “In our physical therapy clinics, many athletes request a comprehensive dry needling intervention as developed by Dr Ma noting improvement in flexibility and faster recovery. "Herbert L. Silver, PT, Doctor of Science, MBA, adjunct faculty Mercer University Physical Therapy

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Interdisciplinary consultation - medical doctors, physical therapist, chiropractor sharing experiences, Boulder, CO	Group from Sweden, working with national sport teams	Dr. Ma with Derek McCormack, MD, Scotland (Celtic football club) and Finbarr Harrington, PT, Ireland

..., 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

3-day VERY Intensive Dry Needling Clinical Seminar  
Course description and Course objectives

Advanced Integrative Systemic Dry Needling™course for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation

FASCIO-NEURO INTRAMUSCULAR Dry Needling Manual Therapy™

    Dr Yun-tao Ma’s dry needling clinical seminar is designed for clinical practitioners involved in the prevention and treatment of sports injuries, chronic pain and movement dysfunctions in athletes, military personnel and other patients. It is aimed at practitioners aspiring to help athletes achieve optimal balance and superior performance and produce “bullet proof” athletes.

    Dr Ma will present the simple, detailed procedures and dry needling techniques he developed 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 seminar  presents his own unique clinical techniques for prevention, treatment and management 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.

 Using these proprietary techniques you can prevent:

·                  muscle tears,

·                  tendinitis,

·                  growth of bone spurs (apophysis)

·                  and 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 Integrative Systemic Dry Needling clinical seminar 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 dry 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 dry needling trigger points manual therapy 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.

*  our 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

            During the 3-day Integrative Systemic Dry Needling clinical seminar for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation we teach, among other subjects, the following techniques based on Dr Ma’s 40 years of clinical and research experience:   

1. Dry Needling technique for biomechanical balancing of human musculoskeletal system
2. Trigger points treatment of delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and overtraining syndrome (OTS).
3. Manual therapy one-of-a-kind treatment procedires for common soft tissue dysfunction in sport injuries: contusion, swelling, tendinitis and other soft tissue dysfunctions.
4. Developed by Dr Ma trigger points procedures for fascial release.
5. Prevention of chronic injuries: Tendinitis, tendon avulsion, stress fracture, and bone spur formation (apophysis) in athletes.
6. Developed by Dr Ma manual therapy procedures for Improving micro-circulatory deficiency and reducing cellular aging in the athlete and adding years to the career and life of the athlete.

            Our hands-one seminar presents developed by Dr Ma the integrated clinical techniques and approaches to prevent trauma and substantially improve physical performance to give athletes the edge over their competitors.