Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Physical Therapy
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Physical Therapy [18 VAC 112 ‑ 20]
Action Practice of dry needling
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 12/30/2015
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12/16/15  10:26 pm
Commenter: Min Kang

Opposed!!
 

54 hours of training and perform the acupuncture treatment?? This must be joke isn't it? How can you see the patient's condition just done by this very shorts training hours? Dry needling? Can you even remember the particular acu. point or study of TCM diagnosis in this training? It can't be. To be an acupuncturist, you must complete 4 years of master degree programs included 1000s of clinic hours at accredited acupuncture schools to get a LICENSE!! Even if physicians want to perform the acupuncture treatment, they also need to take at least 300s hours of acupuncture programs and finish more than 100s hours of clinical training. Acupuncture is not like CE programs or training courses for your additional PT techniques. Do not think of the acupuncture is easy  if you really care about your patients.

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