About Dr. Ma
Bio & Personal Story
Dr. Yun-tao Ma is a renowned international authority in acupuncture pain management and trauma rehabilitation. Dr. Yun-tao Ma has more than 30 years of experience practicing and teaching throughout the world.
Dr. Ma after a presentation with the Director of the World Health Organization , Prof. Cao, in Shanghai.
Dr. Ma teaches Chinese MD’s, Doctors of Acupuncture after classes. Students were so excited about the new acupuncture system that they came to his hotel for continued training.
Beijing - Very informal discussion with friends Prof. Huang, President of Academy of TCM and Dr. Fu from Nanjing University about the future development of acupuncture.
Yun-Tao Ma, received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of South Carolina for research in the field of pain mechanism and neuronal rehabilitation.
He is the author of the highly acclaimed textbooks: Biomedical Acupuncture for Pain Management, (Elsevier-, 2005) and 4 other textbooks.
Dr. Ma is a founder and Director of the
Biomedical Acupuncture Institute (BMAI) He conducts seminars and teaches
Biomedical Acupuncture for Pain Management to medical professionals in the United States and worldwide.( Please see www.Biomedacupuncture.com)
Personal story
Yun-tao has a deeply personal reason for his lifetime involvement and devotion to the field of pain management and trauma rehabilitation. In Shanghai, China, after a word-wild epidemic of polio (after his own personal experience with polio), he witnessed that the results of treatments for children with polio at a modern Western-style hospitals and children treated by traditional acupuncturists were different. He found that a great majority of the children who had acupuncture treatments, experienced a higher degree of recovery and many returned to normal productive lives. Years later, Dr. Ma divided his time between scientific research of the mechanism of acupuncture and the practical application of acupuncture treatments.
Presently many professionals in the field of medicine and pain management have watched with concern the reaction of their patients as several of their pharmaceutical tools have been pulled from the shelves. Long before the general public were informed of the dangerous side effects of painkillers, Dr. Ma has warned his patients about it. Many of his patients are seeking alternatives to these drugs that gave them so much relief by starting acupuncture treatments, which are effective for pain relief and have no side-effects.
Dr. Ma’s patients greatly appreciate his heartfelt compassion, his skills and more often than not, continue maintenance treatments for general well-being long after the pain symptoms have gone.