To whom it may concern: 

As any licensed professional, we all have been through required education, hands-on training under supervision (internship and/or residency) entering the professional work force after passing challenging license examination. With all these, it sets up a system for standards of practice and ensure public safety.

Dry needling looks like acupuncture. Indeed, it IS acupuncture. Whether it is trigger points or A-shi points, the manipulation of acupuncture needles are used. Thus it is the practice of acupuncture. So if it is acupuncture, why call it "dry needle"? So that consumers do not have to be incormed and concerned about the potential risks of "dry needling"?

Do not just take all the glories of what acupuncture can do and put it under the term of "dry needling", and leave out all the hard work that each licensed acupuncturist went through to master the art of healing through applying sacred acupuncture needles within the complete medical system of traditional Chinese medicine. 

Let needles be the rights and responsibilities of licensed acupuncturist within each state and let patients be the one who can truly benefit from such holistic medical system. And if physical therapist wants to practice needling, they must become a licensed acupuncturist to achieve that ambition!