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APTA supports the inclusion of dry needling in regulatory frameworks, accompanied by appropriate educational qualifications for PTs to engage in the intervention.

State Laws and Regulations Governing Dry Needling Performed by PTs

Apr 10, 2026/Resource

This map displays the states that specifically allow dry needling by PTs, states that prohibit the intervention by PTs, and states in which a clear opinion has not surfaced.

FSBPT Analysis of Competencies for Dry Needling by Physical Therapists

Oct 22, 2024/Report

The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy set out to define what PTs must know and be able to do to perform dry needling safely and effectively. Their latest study reveals the answers.

Considering Providing Dry Needling Services?

Mar 1, 2021/Column

Understand your professional, legal, and personal scopes of practice.

Dry Needling, Trigger Points, and Myofascial Pain Syndrome – #XchangeSA

Oct 7, 2019/Podcast

Joseph Donnelly, PT, DHS , discusses what you need to know about dry needling, trigger points, and myofascial pain syndrome and how physical therapy can work in these areas.

Dry Needling: Getting to the Point

May 1, 2015/Feature

Dry needling by physical therapists is a hot topic. What's fact? What's fiction? Take a look beneath the surface.

For Consumers: Dry Needling: What You Should Know

Aug 1, 2018/Website

This webpage from APTA's consumer-focused ChoosePT.com website provides an overview of the intervention, related equipment used, and the PT's role.

Regulatory Update, Feb. 2, 2022: CMS on Beneficiary Payment for Dry Needling

Feb 2, 2022/Article

CMS still isn't paying for dry needling, but it has provided some guidance on how to successfully bill a beneficiary for the service.

From PTJ: Finding the Right Combination for Treatment of Cervicogenic Headache

Jan 31, 2024/Review

Researchers see promise in multiple combinations, including spinal joint manipulation and dry needling.

Physician Fee Schedule Coding Updates

Feb 1, 2020/Column

Changes for 2020 include new codes for dry needling and changes to a number of existing codes.

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Effect of dose interval of periosteal and intraarticular electrical dry needling boosters on pain and disability in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a multi-center randomized clinical trial.

Feb 28, 2026/Academic Journal

Dunning, James, Young, Ian, Taylor, Norman, Mourad, Firas, Bliton, Paul, Butts, Raymond, Escaloni, James, Gorby, Patrick, Varghese, Rejoy, Maselli, Filippo, Fernández-de-Las-Peñas, César

WHAT IS DRY NEEDLING AND WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR ITS POPULARITY? The benefits of effective pain treatment and functional rehabilitation.

Apr 28, 2025/Periodical

HORTZ, BRIAN, HILDENBRAND, JUSTIN

Treatment Guidelines and Decision Tree for Dry Needling Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Consensus Statement.

Jun 22, 2026/Academic Journal

Waterway, Tyler, Beougher, Jonathon, Butler, Robert, Church, Kelby, Cook, Gray, Falsone, Susan, Hortz, Brian, Opitz, Tyler, Plisky, Phillip J., Zylstra, Edo, Martin, RobRoy
Subjects: EXERCISE therapy; DRY needling; MEDICAL protocols; PATIENT selection; MUSCULOSKELETAL pain; MUSCULOSKELETAL system diseases; DECISION making in clinical medicine; DECISION trees

Effectiveness of Trigger Point Dry Needling for Plantar Heel Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Jul 31, 2014/Research Reports

Background

Plantar heel pain can be managed with dry needling

On “Effectiveness of trigger point dry needling…” Cotchett MP, Munteanu SE, Landorf KB. Phys Ther. 2014;94:1083–1094.

Oct 31, 2014/Letters

On “Effectiveness of trigger point dry needling…” Cotchett MP, Munteanu SE, Landorf KB. Phys Ther. 2014;94:1083–1094.

Aug 31, 2014/Letters and Responses

Blinding Strategies in Dry Needling Trials: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Aug 1, 2019/Musculoskeletal

AbstractBackground

Blinding