Dear Sir/Madam,

Dry needling course are never offered in most of the PT professional schools. All the courses are given during weekends and the commencial lecturers are only concerned to making money, and rarely consider patient safety. 

A. Physicians' qualification to perform acupuncture:

4 year undergraduate, 4 year MD school, minimum 3 year residency training then  they are given MD licenses, then around 300 hour training of acupuncture with exams, they then are allowed to practice acupuncture.

B. Acupuncturists' qualification to perform acupuncture:

4 year undergraduate, 3 to 4 year acupuncture school, plus clinic observation, exams including oral, written and clean needles.

C. Current Physical Therapists' qualification to perform acupuncture (dry needlling)

4 year undergraduate, 3 to 4 year PT school, plus 20+ hours commencial weekend class, no exams

I hope the government considers the most important issue is patients' safety. Without adquate training, please do not insert the needles into the patient's body. Please do not think it is called "dry needles" it is not acupuncture. There are indistinguishable between "dry needlling" and acupuncture according to the statement of America Medical Associatioin. 

If your family members are suffering pain and absolutely need acupuncture, will you are comfortable to send them to a PT with 20+ hour training to insert needles into their body? 

Thank you very much for your understanding.

Best,

Jun Xu