Acupuncture needling is not as simple as inserting needles to human body.  It requires tremendous learning regarding both allopathic and Traditional Chinese Medicines' philosophy, pathological and physiology knowledge.  PTs may have learned enough allopathic related medical knowledge yet they know nothing about what is acupuncture.  If acupuncture is as easy as inserting needles into human body and expecting a placebo effect, everybody can be an acupuncturist.  Acupuncture is a medical practice that requires clinical internship and an official license.  It requires diagnosis and needling prescription to make the human bady recovered from physical and psychological symptoms.  Without sufficient learning, enough clinical training and official license, all acupuncture practices are illegal and dangerous to the public.  The acupuncture practice involves both medical and legal issues; different levels of medical personnel have different requirements and limitations, all need to abide by the scope of practice from medical and legal perspectives.