Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Physical Therapy
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Physical Therapy [18 VAC 112 ‑ 20]
Action Practice of dry needling
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 7/26/2019
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7/25/19  12:19 pm
Commenter: Arthur

Opposition to Dry Needling
 

Around the country, physical therapists are expanding practice to include “dry needling” for sinus congestion, menstrual dysphoria, and other internal medicine issues.  Oversight by physical therapy boards has been ineffective in managing the expansion of treatment into the domain of internal medicine, thereby putting the public at risk.  There is no reason to believe that the situation in Virginia will be different.  https://www.thephysiocompany.com/blog/physiotherapy-for-sinus-pain

https://www.kinetacore.com/about/news/clinical-pearl-desensitizing-the-migraine-functional-dry-needlingreg-approach/

https://waset.org/publications/10004906/dry-needling-treatment-in-38-cases-of-chronic-sleep-disturbancehttps://integrativedryneedling.com/dry-needling-training/why-attend-integrative-dry-needling-courses/

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