I am a Certified Medical Assistant for a Naturopathic doctor who is also a licensed Acupuncturist.  I am strongly opposed to physical therapist practicing dry needing.

• Dry needling is outside the scope of practice for physical therapy.
• Dry needling is not safe and places the patient at high risk for injury.  I have recently read where a physical therapist participated in dry needling a patient who ended up with a pneumothorax. 
• The only people who should be doing any dry needling such be a licensed acupuncturist.  Acupuncturists go through literally several thousand hours of extensive training in acupuncture specific training, didactic material and supervised clinic training.