The training standards for Physical Therapist are woefully inadequate, unethical, and dangerous to patient safety. 

It is evident that Physical Therapist have already expanded dry needle beyond its proper scope of practice, into essentially becoming the practice of acupuncture without the training, skill, and knowledge of acupuncture physiology.  See Colorado "Cosmetic Dry Needling" case. Where the therapist tried to expand Dry Needle into a cosmetic procedure, which is completely not a dry needle technique, but simply acupuncture under the guise of dry needle.. 

Dry needle is in reality seemlessly intertwined with acupuncture. The retention of needles, the use of distal acupuncture points are not dry needle. The purpose of dry needle is to elicit a twitch response. But the twitch response is mostly unpredictable and often not attainable. So what happens when the dry needle therapist gets no twitch response. They insert more needles and retain their needles in the patient. This is not dry needle. 

 What happens when the Pandora's Box of dry needle becomes acupuncture, like Physical Therapist are trying to push? Soon both the practitioner and patient are both ignorant of the procedures being performed. The Dry needler is putting needles in acupuncture points with zero understanding of acupuncture physiology while the patient is equallly ignorant. Both the practitioner and patient are ignorant of the procedures being performed. This is what happens if PT's are allowed to practice Dry Needle and by extension acupuncture with woefully inadequate training. This is malpractice, unethical and should be prevented at all costs. No  to Physical Therapist practicing Dry Needle. 

Note to PT's. If you wish to practice acupuncture go to a fully accreditated acupuncture educational institution. Furthermore if you wish to practice dry needle and acupuncture then clearly you have to drop what is currently useless in the Phsyical Therapy curriculum of your schools.