Against PT dry needling without appropriate TCM training.

It leads to policies that create the possibility for misappropriation of TM knowledge in a regulatory process. Several United Nations bodies have advised countries to actively preserve Traditional Medicine (TM) knowledge and prevent its misappropriation in regulatory structures. Misappropriation’ occurs when particular cultural components are extracted and decontextualized from their broader cultural frameworks, typically by cultural outsiders, unsanctioned by the source community, thus causing prejudice.

2-Biomedicine appropriates certain aspects from other healing systems or traditions without fully acknowledging the paradigmatic worldview from which the particular treatment aspect was taken.

3- PT's argument is that acupuncture is about balancing Qi, or vital energy, i.e. it is not about “inserting acupuncture needles”. … acupuncture is much more than an activity or act, it is a whole different way of thinking and approaching health care. When a health professional use a needle to treat without proper tcm training, it leads to an incorrect and incomplete treatment for the patient and, it gives a wrong impression of what acupuncture is about.

Comment inspired by the: State risk discourse and the regulatory preservation of traditional medicine knowledge: The case of acupuncture in Ontario, Canada