American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM) Position Statement on Trigger Point Dry Needling (TPDN) and Intramuscular Manual Therapy (IMT) Summary The American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Blue Ribbon Panel on Inter- professional Standards has determined that dry needling and any of its alternate designations, including intramuscular manual therapy, trigger point needling, functional dry needling, intramuscular stimulation or any other method by which a needle is inserted to effect therapeutic change, is, by definition, the practice of acupuncture. Rationale • 1. Acupuncture, as a procedure, is the stimulation of anatomical locations on the body, alone and in combination, to treat disease, injury, pain, and dysfunction and to promote health and wellness. Acupuncture, as a procedure, includes the invasive stimulation of said locations by the insertion of needles and the non-invasive stimulation of said locations by thermal, electrical, chemical, light, mechanical or other manual therapeutic methods.

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Acupuncture, as a therapeutic intervention and medical practice, is the study of how the various acupuncture procedures are applied in health care. Trigger point dry needling, dry needling, functional dry needling, and intramuscular manual therapy, or any other pseudonym describing acupuncture procedures, are, by definition, the practice of acupuncture. In the interest of public safety, non-acupuncture boards should not regulate the practice of acupuncture. Citilink on this page. Nationally Recognized Acupuncture Standards The AAAOM endorses the educational standards set forth by the Accreditation Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM).

The ACAOM is the sole agency recognized by the United States Department of Education to set educational standards for the procedure and practice of acupuncture. The AAAOM endorses the state licensure qualifying standards set forth by the National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). The NCCAOM is the sole agency recognized by the Institute for Credentialing Excellence’s (ICE) National Commission on Certifying Agencies (NCCA) to qualify acupuncturists for licensure. State regulatory boards for licensed health care professions other than acupuncture have begun to recognize the procedure and practice of acupuncture by other names, such as “dry needling” and “trigger point dry needling.” At present, this is being done primarily by physical therapy boards in an attempt to expand the scope of practice for the physical therapy profession. Scope of practice expansion attempts made in this manner preclude necessary and adequate educational and safety standards for the procedure and practice of acupuncture. Forty-four (six pending) states plus the District of Columbia have statutorily defined acupuncture and the educational and certification standards required for acupuncture licensure.

Current medical literature is consistent with the definitions of both the procedure and practice of acupuncture as provided by state practice acts. Historical Precedents Trigger point dry needling and intramuscular manual therapy are aliases used in the marketing of a subset of acupuncture t echniques described in the field of acupuncture as “ashi point needling.” 2 A reasonable English translation of ashi points is “trigger points”, a term used by Dr. Janet Travell in her landmark 1983 book Myofascial Pain Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual. 3 Dorsher et al., 4 determined that of the 255 trigger points listed by Travell and Simons, 234 (92%) had anatomic correspondence with classical, miscellaneous, or new acupuncture points listed in Deadman et al., 5 an internationally-recognized acupuncture reference book. Modern authorities agree and describe dry needling as acupuncture. 6,7,8 Mark Seem discussed dry needling in A New American Acupuncture in 1993.