Dry needling should not be practiced under the name of acupuncture in Traditional Chinese Medicine. I have patients who received dry needling thinking that they were getting TCM treatments, only to experience severe pain during the treatment and little effects for symptom relief. While I do not mind any other practitioners using needles to perform what's allowed in their profession, patients should be carefully guided on the difference on the options presented - dry needling should explicitly and thoroughly disclaim that it is very different from acupuncture in the sense of TCM philosophy and methodology.