MEROMED PHYSIOTHERAPY CENTRE

Rory Oetomo, as a licensed Physical Therapist in the State of Colorado,  is a Certified Provider in  Systemic Integrative Dry Needling (aka Intramuscular stimulation (IMS) or Trigger Point Dry Needling (TDN) through the American Dry Needling Institute in Boulder, Colorado  under the direct supervision from and teaching by Dr. Yun-tao Ma.  Dry Needling is an integrative therapeutic modality for soft tissue dysfunction. Dry Needling treatments result in an anti-inflammatory immune reaction and lead to self healing and internal balance.  It’s extremely effective to treat Soft Tissue injuries such as but not limited to Sports Injuries (also preventing chronic sports injuries), Bursitis, Tendonitis, Spinal injuries, upper & lower extremIty injuries, just to name a few. Dry Needling is not Acupuncture as we know through the ancient philosophy of  Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).  It’s a non-specific neuro-physiological based therapy. Dry needling has its own theoretical concepts, terminology, needling technique and clinical application.

Systemic Integrative Dry Needling (SIDN)

• SIDN represent effective techniques for resolving soft tissue dysfunction: inflammation, contracture, tissue adhesion, microcirculation and edema, and biomechanical balance of musculoskeletal system

• Our approach is both systemic and analytical. We emphasize both local anatomy and systemic functional effects. We treat both local injuries and assure physiological and mechanical balance of the whole system -human body
• Systemic Integrative Dry Needling techniques allow practitioner to predict the prognosis of the treatments such as how many treatments the patients will need and how long the symptom relief can be achieved.

Dr. Ma’s 40-year background in clinical and Western (biomedical, no meridians, no classic acupoints) Dry Needling acupuncture and neuroscience research has enabled him to address specifically neuro-immunological and neuro-muscular mechanisms of Systemic Integrated Dry Needling and created SIDN.

SIDN Incorporated:

Biomedical acupuncture -Integrative Systemic Dry needling

1) Myofasical trigger point techniques by Travell and Simon and Baldrey,

2) Intramuscular stimulation (IMS) by C. Chan Gunn,

In addition to rehabilitation after trauma/injuries or surgeries, SIDN can be used for prevention of physical injuries such as muscular avulsion, fracture stress and bone spur growth, etc. Therefore, our system can be also used in Sports Medicine to enhance the peak performance of the athletes and in Age Management to slow down the aging process.

Dr. Yun-tao Ma, PhD, educator, writer, scientist, founder of the American Dry Needling Institute, visiting Professor with the Medical Faculty of Paris XI (Orsay) University, is an internationally recognized and highly respected authority in Pain Management, Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation, who has been teaching for many years dry Needling in USA and all around the world.

Dr. Ma’s evidence-based Integrative Dry Needling System has proven efficacy nationally and worldwide and has been presented  with great success at National and  international symposiums in Washington DC, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Sao Paulo, Miami, Frankfurt, Prague, Thessaloniki, Natal, Beijing and at US medical schools.

Dr. Ma’s Short Bio:

• 40 years of clinical needling experience
• 30 years of research experience in neuroscience and pain management, including research  in National Institute of Health (NIH)
• publications in Journal of Neuroscience (1998), Brain Research (2000), Max Plank Institute (2005), etc
• his textbooks published by Elsevier,USA 2005 and 2010; in Germany 2007; in China 2000, 2007
• experience working in the Postgraduate physical therapy program at the University of Iowa and Department of Experimental Therapeutics University of Maryland, Medical School
• Visiting Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Nantong Medical School, China
• Visiting Professor, Medical Faculty, Paris IX (Orsay) University, France.

Dr. Ma’s own 40-year background in clinical biomedical neuroscience research, including work with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and his experience working in the postgraduate physical therapy program at the University of Iowa and Department of experimental therapeutics at the University of Maryland medical school contributed to the creation of the unique Integrative Systemic Dry Needling™ for Pain Management,  Sports Medicine and Trauma Rehabilitation. It is this rigorously scientific background, coupled with extensive clinical experience, that makes

Dr. Ma’s contemporary dry needling system so effective. In 2005, he co-authored a Western acupuncture (no meridians, no acupoints) aka contemporary Dry Needling modality textbook, Biomedical Acupuncture for Pain Management, Integrative approach, with Mila Ma and Zan Cho – published by Elsevier. (Also translated into German and Portuguese.)

Dr. Yun-tao Ma’s second textbook is titled, “Biomedical Acupuncture for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation, Dry Needling Techniques”.