Hello, please take this into serious consideration to not pass the ability to dry needle for athletic trainers. When you compare the amount of schooling that is required to be licensed as an acupuncturist in each state there is no comparison of an athletic trainer’s education to qualify them to administer dry needling, which is Acupuncture just under another name to allow other professions to encroach on our profession. Because they know that there are good results with this, but you need to be fully educated for safety of patient. and it takes many hours in clinic and years of foundation knowledge to apply this modality for healing. Medical Doctors are able to get certified as Acupuncturists only because they have a background and knowledge of the body that comes with qualifications a medical doctor, same with Doctors of PT. And athletic trainer does not have the credentialed background of a medical doctor to easily let them become certified to do acupuncture or dry needling. These are one and the same.