Biomedical acupuncture for sports and trauma rehabilitation : dry needling techniques
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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St. Louis, Mo.:
Churchill Livingstone,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Integrative systemic dry needling or dry needling acupuncture : 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