Medical Doctors and Chiropractors receive 300 hours of training. I have 3700 hours of clinical and academic training over the pre-med undergraduate requirements. I received 60 hours of continuing education every 3 years. This is for the safety of those who choose acupuncture. There is no difference in dry needling and acupuncture, except education. I also have no problem with PTs practing acupuncture with proper training. In acupuncture alone, I received 750 hours of supervised clinical experience before working on clients alone. This is an important process and should not be taken lightly. To define acupuncture as dry needling is a nice loop hole and semantics, billing is done as manual therapy instead of using acupuncture coding. I wish that PTs be required a proper education, through certified acupuncture schools or programs to ensure the safety of the public.