Greetings,

Any person without proper training inserting a needle into the body endangers the patient and casuses public distrust. Acupuncture (which uses solid filiform needles) IS dry needling. Physical Therapists and Chiropractors, among other medical professionals, are attempting to infringe on our legal medical scope of practice. This is no different if I were to perform PT practices on patients or perform a Chiropractic adjustment on patients. I respect their professions enough to allow them to do what they were trained to do. A weekend course is NOT enough training to practice Acupuncture which IS dry needling. Dry needling is a relatively recently coined term devised to attempt to make a separation from Acupuncture. It is NOT! They are one in the same. I went to a Graduate level medical school for 4 yrs and accumulated over 3,000 classroom hours and treated hundreds and hundereds of patients before I was able to even sit for Acupuncture board exams.

The fact that this is even being cosidered in the Legislature is a travesty of enormous proportions. Do the right thing and defeat this ill sighted measure.

Sincerely,

Dennis Kasunic

Licensed Acupuncturist

Yin Yang Acupuncture