Biomedical 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 willenhance athletic performance, accelerate recovery after intensive workouts, and speed trauma rehabilitation after injuries or surgeries. Evidence-based research is used to support the best and most effective techniques, with over 100illustrations showing anatomy, injury, and clinical procedures. Unlike many other acupuncture books, this book uses a Western approach to make it easier tounderstand rationales, master techniques, and integrate biomedical acupuncture into your practice. INDICE: 1. Integrative Systemic Dry Needling or Dry Needling Acupuncture: A New Modality for Athletes2. Homeostasis and Stress in Sports and Exercise3. Human Brain Plasticity, Sports, and Sports Injuries4. Musculoskeletal Systems and Human Movement5. Overtraining Syndrome and the Use of Muscle in Exercise6.Clinical Mechanisms of Integrative Systemic Dry Needling7. Physiology of Acu-Reflex Points8. Neuroanatomy of Acu-Reflex Points9. Homeostatic Acu-Reflex Point System10. Trigger Points and the Integrative Neuromuscular Acu-Reflex PointSystem11. Visceral Pain and Visceral-Somatic Reflexes12. Pathomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System and Acu-Reflex Points13. Using Dry Needling Acupuncture for Preventing Injury and Enhancing Athletic Performance14. General Principles of Treating Soft-Tissue Dysfunction in Sports Injuries15. Preventive and Therapeutic Treatment of Injuries in Selected Sports16. Safety Issues in Dry Needling Acupuncture Practice

• ISBN: 978-1-4377-0927-8
• Editorial: Churchill Livingstone
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 22/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés