Dry needling is acupuncture! As a licensed acupuncturist, we spend 3500 hours learning the techniques and the theory behind the medicine! Any other profession trying to take shortcuts to perform dry needling (acupuncture), is a safety issue and a health risk! They need to go through the proper training, just like every other acupuncturist has to. Otherwise, they can cause serious harm to the patients and do dry needling an injustice!