Welcome to the Coalition for Safe Acupuncture Practice (CSAP).
CSAP exists to provide a forum for responding to issues that affect the safe practice of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine generally and impact Licensed Acupuncturists specifically in the United States.
CSAP also intends to inform the public about the practice of Dry Needling through education, petition and
public demonstration. Join us by signing the CSAP petition!
Help Support Acupuncture being performed by Licensed Acupuncturists
Recently, Physical Therapists have been seeking to incorporate what is being named "Dry Needling" into their patient treatment regimens. Dry Needling is indistinguishable from acupuncture,
yet is often based on two or three day seminars, featuring only 16 to 24 hours of classroom education with no needle technique clinical internship training being included. The Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (CCAOM) states: “It is the position of the CCAOM that any intervention utilizing dry needling is the practice of acupuncture, regardless of the language utilized in describing the technique.” CSAP exists to promote public awareness of the regulatory and public safety issues surrounding the issue of Dry Needling by Physical Therapists.. Please joint us by signing the Coalition for Safe Acupuncture Practice Petition found below. |
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Coalition for Safe Acupuncture Practice Petition:
Support Acupuncturists doing Acupuncture.
We, the undersigned, as students of Traditional Chinese Medicine attending ACAOM accredited collegesi, as Licensed Acupuncturists, as teachers of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as allied healthcare professionals, as patients of Licensed Acupuncturists and as concerned citizens do believe that:
1. Acupuncture is the stimulation of specific anatomical locations on the human body, alone or in combination, to treat disease, pain and dysfunction and to promote wellness.
2. Acupuncture is the invasive or non‐invasive stimulation of said locations by means of insertion of solid, filiform, sterile needles or by other thermal, electrical, light, mechanical or manual therapeutic methods of stimulation.
3. Acupuncture, as a field of practice, is the study of how acupuncture can be applied to health and wellness and the treatment of pain, disease and other dysfunctions of the human body.
4. Dry Needling, Trigger Point Dry Needling, and Intramuscular Manual Therapy are, by definition, Acupuncture.
5. Any intervention that makes use of Dry Needling, regardless of the language employed in describing the procedure, is the practice of Acupuncture.
6. Acupuncture, as a field of practice, should be limited to:
a. State Licensed Acupuncturists
b. American Board of Medical Acupuncture certified Medical Doctors and Doctors of Osteopathy
c. Appropriately trained DCs, MDs and DOs
1. Acupuncture is the stimulation of specific anatomical locations on the human body, alone or in combination, to treat disease, pain and dysfunction and to promote wellness.
2. Acupuncture is the invasive or non‐invasive stimulation of said locations by means of insertion of solid, filiform, sterile needles or by other thermal, electrical, light, mechanical or manual therapeutic methods of stimulation.
3. Acupuncture, as a field of practice, is the study of how acupuncture can be applied to health and wellness and the treatment of pain, disease and other dysfunctions of the human body.
4. Dry Needling, Trigger Point Dry Needling, and Intramuscular Manual Therapy are, by definition, Acupuncture.
5. Any intervention that makes use of Dry Needling, regardless of the language employed in describing the procedure, is the practice of Acupuncture.
6. Acupuncture, as a field of practice, should be limited to:
a. State Licensed Acupuncturists
b. American Board of Medical Acupuncture certified Medical Doctors and Doctors of Osteopathy
c. Appropriately trained DCs, MDs and DOs