Greetings-

We do not teach dry needling in our curricula and have no plans to do so.

Thanks,

-Steve

Steven D. Taff, PhD, OTR/L, FNAP, FAOTA
Director, Division of Professional Education
Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy and Medicine
4444 Forest Park Avenue, Box 8505
St. Louis, MO 63108
taffs@wustl.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: ot-pd@aotalists.org [mailto:ot-pd@aotalists.org]
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2017 9:17 AM
To: ot-pd@aotalists.org; ota-pd@aotalists.org
Subject: [OT-PD List - AOTA] - Dry Needling

Hello Program Directors,

On behalf of the AOTA Commission on Practice, I am inquiring whether the topic of “dry needling” is taught in your respective curricula.
AOTA has been receiving inquiries from members about AOTA’s position on the topic/procedure. Per Chuck Wilmarth, a few states have adopted interpretative language that effectively integrates the procedure as covered within those states’ scope of practice. Meanwhile OT and non-OT stakeholders have expressed concerns regarding the level of entry-level preparation to enable safe and effective delivery of the procedure.

That leads to the question, what are programs teaching (or not teaching)?

1.       Does your program teach dry needling? If so, to what extent? (The more specific, the better – i.e., hours, mode, etc)

2.       If not, do you plan to include this in your curriculum?

Sal

Salvador Bondoc, OTD, OTR/L, BCPR, CHT, FAOTA Chair and Professor of Occupational Therapy Quinnipiac University
275 Mt. Carmel Ave. MNH-362
Hamden, CT.06518
Phone: 203-582-3727
E-mail:  Salvador.Bondoc@quinnipiac.edu<mailto:Salvador.Bondoc@quinnipiac.edu>

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