As Medical Professionals specializing in orthopedic sports medicine, Athletic Trainers are uniquely suited to perform a wide variety on interventions to support the health and safety of patients across all levels of fitness, sports, and lifestyles. Adding dry needling for myofascial release and trigger point therapy is an important step in continue to build our scope of practice and ability to help a wide variety of patients. 

I do feel it is important, however, to acknowledge that there needs to be proper training and course work involved with this proposal, so that ATCs are fully prepared and educated on safety and appropriate techniques for dry needling to protect themselves and their patients. 

There is room in the sandbox for all of us to be able to utilize interventions like dry needling in our own practices -- just like so many other modalities overlap throughout PTs, ATs, Chiropractors, etc.