I sincerely hope that the legislature won't make any rash decisions based on most of the comments in this forum. To base a decision on pooling from a specific sample who are clearly opposed to physical therapists dry needling and not informing the opposite party in favor of physical therapists dry needling seems to be very biased and unfair. I just recently heard about this forum and the legislature is set to meet tomorrow. From a non-subjective standpoint, let me give you some facts about my experience dry needling thus far.

I have been certified to perform dry needling since Sept 14, 2015 through Kinetacore in Ashburn, Va. I have currently performed dry needling on 48 patients, with improvements in subjective complaints and significant improvements in objective measures on 47/48  patients. The one patient that did not benefit from dry needling neither regressed, as no change happened. I know on a research standpoint, one cannot base a cause-effect relationship on this aforementioned data, but there is certainly a positive correlation seen with dry needling as an adjunct to my treatment program. I even plan on writing up several of these for case reports in the near future. After that, I would like to set up experimental randomized-controled trials to find a cause and effect relationship.

I could even ask all 48 patients for their personal experience with dry needling and submit this to the legislature if the legislature for some reason was concerned that physical therapists should not be able to perform dry needling.  

One last thing to remember in all of this is the following: this is not for my glory or pride - this is for the patient - the patient getting better and returning to a lifestyle where pain no longer inhibits them. If this ability for physical therapists to dry needle is taken away, then I would speculate to say hundreds of patients will not get the best care that they need. Hopefully we as a community will quit trying to limit each other and actually remember what this really should be all about.

Please feel free to email me with any comments or inquiries you may have.

Thank you