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(Fwd to timestamp 5:45:40 to view the presentation & discussion of the bill)
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An Update from CPTA President, Oscar Gallardo, PT, DPT, regarding what happened to #AB2497. Read his statement 👉https://t.co/5DUZkPXpwa
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A Message from CPTA President, Oscar Gallardo, PT, DPT, regarding the removal of dry needling language from #AB2497. Read his statement 👉https://t.co/5DUZkPXpwa
but about persuasion, and the voice of the people that yell the loudest can unfortunately drown out the truth. Still, I have hope that amendments to the bill simply come in the form of specifying the level of training needed rather than an outright elimination
to appropriation of traditional Chinese medicine, the straw man arguments fly in the face of the scientifically-accepted evidence of the safe and appropriate purview of dry needling in the domain of physical therapists' scope of practice. Alas, politics is not about evidence
is the real "disrespect" about which committee member Nguyen should have been so vehemently complaining. I understand that this issue has relevance for acupuncturists but not in the way that has been presented. From misrepresentation of patient safety to business territorialism
supposedly should be better informed. As committee member Macedo mentioned, the 2 practices are being conflated, acupuncture and dry needling. Acupuncture is a profession, not a technique. Dry needling is a technique. To reduce an entire profession to one technique
at the proceedings of the Business and Professions committee over AB2497, seeking to modernize the CA PT Practice Act. My disappointment wasn't simply in the level of opposition mounted by the acupuncture lobby but the misrepresentation of dry needling by committee members who