Ma, Yun-tao. <br/><br/>
Biomedical acupuncture for sports and trauma rehabilitation :  dry needling techniques / 
Yun-tao Ma. 
 - St. Louis, Mo. :  Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier,  c2011. 
 - xix, 275 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781437709278 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1437709273 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010000460 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101522310  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports injuries--Patients--Rehabilitation.<br/>Acupuncture.<br/>Athletic Injuries--therapy.<br/>Acupuncture Therapy.<br/>Sports Medicine--methods.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RD97  / .M3 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>617.1/027 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2010 D-848 QT 261  / M111b 2011