 Many physical therapists and chiropractors have asserted that they are not practicing acupuncture when dry needling.Much of dry needling research, however, has been done with reference to acupuncture.They assert that much of the basic physiological and biomechanical knowledge that dry needling utilizes is taught as part of their core physical therapy and chiropractic education and that the specific dry needling skills are supplemental to that knowledge and not exclusive to acupuncture.