BIOMEDICAL ACUPUNTURE FOR ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE & INJURY PREVENTION

Dry needling acupuncture is a new medical modality for treating patients with soft tissue pain and sports injuries. Integrative Systemic Dry Needling (ISDN) is a unique medical procedure that is designed to restore and normalize soft tissue dysfunction. It is a new development in clinical technique that is different from both conventional dry needling and classic acupuncture, although it shares  the same physiologic mechanism as both methods. 

Dry Needling can help all athletes, it can enhance their physical performance, prevent common injuries, accelerate recovery from  overtraining stress, promote rehabilitation after injury and surgeries,  and prolong athletic careers by providing systemic maintenance.  ISDN achieves these goals not only because it reduces or cures the local injuries that commonly occur in sports but also because it emphasizes systemic balance and restoration of physiologic  homeostasis in both injured and healthy athletes.

Close examination of sports injuries indicates that most are related to soft tissue dysfunction, as soft tissue accounts for half of a  human’s body weight. Even for injuries that necessitate surgery, the  final stage of recovery from both the injury and surgery still depends  on restoring the physiologic function of soft tissue. 

In addition to enhancing athletic performance and preventing  injuries, ISDN can also be used to rehabilitate injured athletes. The  most common injuries in sports are soft tissue dysfunction such as  contusions, muscle strain, ligament sprain, swelling, inflammation,  and deficient microcirculation. During recovery and rehabilitation,  adhesion and the formation of scar tissue are major concerns. ISDN  is an effective modality for managing most of these soft tissue  dysfunctions.

ISDN does not conflict with conventional sports medicine, it goes  hand in hand with physiotherapy, Massage and other treatment  modalities. ISDN does not replace surgery or physical therapy.