Athletic Trainers are highly qualified and educated healthcare professionals. In school we learn skills such as suturing, injections, and dry needling. Dry needling is a skill that is well within our knowledge base so it should be within our scope of practice. Athletic trainers work in a variety of clinical settings that use Dry needling as a modality, so it’s not unusual for Athletic trainers to learn this skill and apply it clinically. 

Athletic trainers should be allow to use Dry Needing as a therapeutic modality in the state of  Virginia.