For patients safe and effective received benifit from PT doing dry needling, they must be go to acupuncture school to get enough training level and pass the exam from national board of acupuncture to get qualify to practice . Because dry needling actually is trigger point acupuncture. Only less than 100 hours training is far away for to get qualify level to practice. Don't be try take a parts from acupuncture, then set up different name beyond require the training level to do acupuncture.