Every professional has to remain in their scope of practice.

Athletic trainers may be skilled in their knowledge of the body through the lens of athletes, but this medicine is beyond simply locating and needling. Acupuncture students and professionals go through three to four years of extensive training on not only learning the anatomy and point locations, but also understanding the unseen mechanisms behind the medicine. Dry needling only mimics a portion of this, and is absolutely not a holistic representation of how this medicine can be used to promote healing.