We have the knowledge and capacity as a profession to perform this skill with adequate training in technique. The comments responding "no" sighting any safety concerns of our knowledge come from a fundamental lack of knowledge of the ATC, and fear of increased competition in the marketplace.

ATCs carry a minimum of a Masters degree with years of education on interventions in the body, including piercing the skin with sutures. PTs have a very similar amount of knowledge. The arbitrary barrier for ATCs is unfair, unhealthy, and fundamentally unnecessary.