The Virginia University of Oriental Medicine Master of Science in Oriental Medicine Program Course Description can be found here: http://vuom.edu/wp-images/MSOMcurriculum09282015.pdf

There are many similarities between this curriculum and a physical therapy curriculum, primarily in the Bio Medical Sciences label, Management and Ethics, and Clinical Internships.  The obvious differences are that PT education doesn't include Oriental medicine, Herbology, or Acupuncture training.  It does however, include pharmacology, radiology, and wound care training.  I bring up wound care, due to the sterile field and infection control education needed when dealing with needles.  Also, the post-graduation training needed for Physical Therapists to use this tool bars many from pursuing it.

Overall, the primary difference between the disciplines would be the "why" and "where" of the tool's placement. PT would tend to consider the chemical-mechanical model, often supported by Travell and Simons.  While acupuncture would tend to consider the meridian system, point locations and primary meridian pathways, as outlined by their ideology.  

Due to the education overlap, and specialty education needed to use this specific tool/intervention, it doesn't seem as though one group (PT vs. Acupuncture) should be able to claim a monopoly.  If a parallel were to be drawn, strength and conditioning coaches could similarly claim that PTs should not be able to teach barbell movements because they lack the specific training in that area.  In this light, I would support Physical Therapists being able to use this TDN as an intervention.  It would be beneficial if the acupuncture establishment had contributions and guidance in the training of Physical Therapists in order to best serve the patient population.