The DN Project - Keep dry needling within the scope of physical therapist practice

agreed. no outside agency other than our governing body should be allowed to dictate how we treat and provide care for our patients

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it has changed the way I practice for the better and I couldn't go without now!

I am a practitioner of TDN within my physical therapy practice. I screen patients for appropriateness for use of TDN as I would with any of my other treatment techniques. When applied judiciously to the appropriate patient, I am seeing good results.

This is well within our training of anatomy and clinical skill set.

Dry need Ling has been a great benefit to my patients and has helped speed up recovery time as well as has helped athletes return to play immediately. Many patients that have had acupuncture and dry needling have attested that they are not the same application.

Happy to sign. I'm in TN and we are trying to get it reinstated this year. Please sign this petition and join the cause.

I treat patients safely and effectively with trigger point dry needling on a regular basis with the only side effect being a little soreness the next day. This is well within the scope of physical therapist and actually has been practiced by physical therapist for over twenty years. Only now as it is becoming more popular as it gains acceptance is there any worries and complaints. If there was truly a risk with physical therapists practicing trigger point dry needling I believe it would have come under scrutiny well before now. I do not practice acupuncture or oriental medicine in any respect, I use a strictly western paradigm in my treatment.

Trained with Kinetacore.

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Physical therapist's are likely the most qualified professionals to utilize dry needling with our extensive education and training in human anatomy along with advanced training in continuing education courses. Dry needling is NOT acupuncture; it is a completely different treatment technique and provides benefits that acupuncture cannot.

I have seen dry needling help when nothing else was working. It help them return to activities and have increased quality of life. Physical therapists are more than qualified from our hours of anatomy and physiology . The needling itself is just a tool like your hands are. I am willing to fight for the ability to continue trigger point dry needling to help my patients return to the things they love doing.

I have seen dry needling help when nothing else was working. It help them return to activities and have increased quality of life. Physical therapists are more than qualified from our hours of anatomy and physiology . The needling itself is just a tool like your hands are. I am willing to fight for the ability to continue trigger point dry needling to help my patients return to the things they love doing.

Thank you for this. PTs are more than qualified to do this. We have spent countless hours learning about, dissecting and treating muscular tissue. It's crazy that another profession is trying to guide how we can or cannot treat this tissue! Also, I'm the owner of THE ONLY clinic in WA that has been court ordered to not dry needle. Absurd! Salmon Bay PT just learned of this petition. We thank you and will be posting this to our facebook page.

TDN is a valuable tool for patients that is very different from acupuncture. With appropriate training, the possible risks of TDN can be very easily mitigated.

This is an effective tx in managing musculoskeletal conditions. I utilize it with an understanding of significant medical risk should it be utilized inappropiately. However, I am confident that I practice safely having spent hours in a cadeavor lab during PT school, years of practice with continued orthopedic learning, and training in safe dry needling technique

TDN is such a fantastic treatment tool! I have seen TDN work faster and more optimally than the use of manual therapies alone.

Longer overall schooling, more depth on anatomy & physiology, and a wider range of application for DN vs Acupuncture. DN is an appropriate modality within the scope of a Physical Therapist's practice.

I have been a trigger point dry need list since 2008, utilizing this technique with 90% of my clients at some time during their rehabilitation. It is clearly with the scope of practice of physiotherapists as it is a myofascial application. Physiotherapists are body experts with regards to body anatomy and kinesiology as that is the basis of our training. Simply put accupuncture is an eastern medicine methodology that focuses in medians and chi in the body while trigger point dry needling is purely western medicine based that focuses on muscle, joint and ligaments, which is the mantra of a physiotherapists scope of practice. These two disciplines should be working together to complement the healing of the patient, not at war over some stainless steel.

Triggerpoint dry needling is well within the scope of PTs to treat neuromusculosketel disorders. The IOM previously released a statement about overlapping techniques and approaches within health care. One of my TDN instructors was an acupuncturist and stated that dry needling the way it is taught in the US is clearly different than acupuncture. My question is if we are not allowed to dry needle which is not part of oriental medicine the way it is done. Why are acupuncturist prescribing western style exercise programs and using western style manual therapy with western guidelines? Talk about one sided and hypocritical.