Action | Practice of dry needling |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 2/24/2017 |
The American Physical Therapy Association has provided the following:
http://www.apta.org/StateIssues/DryNeedling/
The following paper also highlights the scope of allowance of dry needling by Physical Therapists:
https://www.fsbpt.org/download/forum_summer2012_stateofjurisdictions.pdf
We perform dry needling at our office and patients, espcially chronic pain patients, have benefitted greatly from this procedure. Given the opiate crisis currently befalling our country, I find it puzzling that there would be an attempt to limit the application of conservative means for pain relief for patients.