Case 1. In August 2015, 70-year-old Eva Campbell suffered a penetrating left lung injury related to dry needling performed by a physical therapist [24]. The penetrating left lung injury resulted in a traumatic pneumothorax [24]. She was treated for the traumatic pneumothorax at the emergency department of the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville in Gainesville, Georgia, and was admitted to that hospital on the same day [24]. The traumatic pneumothorax required medical and surgical intervention [24]. She was hospitalized for four days [24].

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