I have been practicing acupuncture for 15 years. I took the dry needling course twice through Myopain Seminars, once in 2005 and again in 2014. I thought the course was very thorough and the needling technique that was taught was not how acupuncturists would needle. That being said, I looked on YouTube to see dry needling and the therapist just put the needle into a sore spot with no manipulation. This is what acupuncturists do to treat "AhShi" points. I have asked patients who said they received dry needling from a PT how it was done and they said, "They just put it in and left it there". The dry needling technique I learned was definitely different from acupuncture needling. Just inserting a needle into a sore spot is not dry needling, but it is acupuncture. I think there needs to be standards for dry needling and the Myopain Seminar's instruction, I think, should be the standard. Otherwise, it is acupuncture