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Department of Health Professions

Board of Physical Therapy

Regulations Governing the Practice of Physical Therapy [18 VAC 112 ‑ 20]

Action	Practice of dry needling
Stage	Proposed
Comment Period	Ended on 2/24/2017

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2/13/17 3:28 pm

Commenter: Hui Wei, Wei's Chinese Medical Center

Dry Needling is acupuncture! It is out of scope for Physical Therapists!!!

Dry needling is an invasive and advanced procedure that necessitates specific training not only in biomedicine but acupuncture specific training, clinical hours and third party psychometric testing!!!

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