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Licensing committee opens multi‑stakeholder review of scope issues including manual therapy and dry‑needling
Summary
The board’s licensing committee opened a multi‑stakeholder review of scope‑of‑practice questions — from manual therapy/tuina and cupping to dry needling and point‑stimulation devices — and recommended continued outreach and a cautious path to any regulatory or legislative change.
The California Acupuncture Board’s licensing committee convened a broad discussion of scope‑of‑practice topics at its committee meeting prior to the full board session and reported the conversation to the board on March 7. The committee framed the work as a multi‑stakeholder effort to clarify practice boundaries and public protections.
Committee discussion covered multiple modalities and terms that arise in clinics and public discourse, including “Asian massage”/tuina (manual…
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