Dears,  Please protect your physical therapists by not allowing them to engage in acupuncture - yes, acupuncture , without formal and proficiency testing in Chinese Medicine and acupuncture. Dry needling is the emperor who has no clothes . . .If PTs were truly doing dry needling, they would be using "DRY" hypodermic needles, just like J. Travell used. . . Instead they are using acupuncture needles - key word acupuncture- and when the general public sees  a PT using acupuncture needles - with the words acupuncture on the side of the box - what do you think they think the PT is doing?  Yes, they think that the PT is using Chinese medicine /acupuncture. It is very difficult to police and regulate just how much "treatment" the PT can do with acupuncture, if you allow them to use this modality without the necessary education and training.  thus the reason for so many accidents with PTs using acupuncture with not enough education. Licensed Acupuncturists have a minimum of 2500 with clinical supervised training. . .their programs are a 4 yr, post bachelor program . . .and PTs want to do it with how little training? A weekend or two course?? 

Please protect the public from bad medicine and your PTs from lawsuits. . .Say no to PTs doing Dry Needling in Virginia.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.