Whoever wants to practice dry needling ought to have acupuncture.  Dry needling uses the acupuncture needles which are only used for acupuncture.  Acupuncturists in California has to finish minimum of 3600 hours of acupuncture subject related education before sitting for the license exam.  Without doing this, to allow anyone to poke concumers with acupuncture needles is endangering people's life.