Action | Practice of dry needling |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 2/24/2017 |
Patients have pain that could not be resolved by 'Dry needling/trigger point therapy from PT. I cued them with 4-5 treatments with trigger point acupuncture. Because I received thousands hours training on how to use Acupuncture needles.
I see comments here from patients that saying 'Trigger Point Therapy' saved them and solved their pain problem. Frankly, if they come to Acupuncturists, I am sure their pain could be resolved as well. We uses classical Acupuncture, Trigger Point Acupuncture, modern Acupuncture that bases on orthopedic knowledge... We have so many methods to help our patients with pain problems. It is pity that they come to PT first. I see patients that have Drying Needling by PT for months and the pain still stays while resolved by 2-3 treatments under an Acupuncturist's hand.
I would say to the patients that supports "Dry Needling' here. Yes 'Dry needling' is good, but PT are doing it out-of-their-scope. A good medical technique does not mean anybody could and should perform it. They need proper training to be responsible for the patients. If you patient come to a person who has hundreds or thousands of hours of Acupuncture training comapring to a person with only 80 hours of training, you could recover faster.