Informed Consent In Dry Needling—an area that can raise unique challenges and responsibilities for myotherapists.

Bodine is a Soft Tissue Therapist and Director of Education for ACE. He holds a Master of Educational Neuroscience and an Advanced Diploma of Health Science (soft tissue therapy). 

Recently, Bodine led an in-depth industry review exploring how informed consent in dry needling is currently being approached across manual therapy professions. From that review, some key recommendations emerged—designed to support therapists in delivering clearer, more consistent, and legally sound consent processes.

We’ll be unpacking what good, informed consent looks like in practice, why it matters, and how you can integrate these best-practice principles into your dry needling treatments with confidence.