TPTA Webinar on Dry Needling
As you may know, the Tennessee Attorney General recent issued an opinion stating that dry needling is not current part of the legal scope of practice for physical therapists in Tennessee. This webinar will provide you the information about the legal opinion, and how it impacts your practice and the patients you serve. In addition the webinar will review TPTA’s plan of action to remedy this situation, the timeline for state legislation on dry needling, and what you can do to help! This webinar is open to TPTA members.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 7:30 pm EST/6:30 pm central
Issues being discussed -
1) Background and history of Dry Needling in Tennessee
2) Information on the Attorney General opinion
3) Recap of the discussion at the August 8th meeting of the Tennessee State Board PT Licensure (licensing board).
3) TPTA’s plan to TAKE ACTION to remedy the situation.
4) What YOU can to help make dry needling legal again in Tennessee.
Please RSVP for the webinar by sending an email to: advocacy@apta.org as soon as possible. Please be sure to include your email address and member id number in your RSVP email. Only those who RSVP will be emailed the call in # and webinar link.
