MyoMatters
The Myotherapy Association Australia began life as Myotherapy Association of Victoria. As an emerging health profession, the popularity of myotherapy as a valuable career pathway in health sciences meant the association quickly identified the need for graduates and practitioners nationally for peak body representation. Today, the Myotherapy Association Australia are Australia’s only industry association dedicated solely to the needs of myotherapists and myotherapy profession. In essence, myotherapists help people in pain to move better and live their best life.
MyoMatters
Informed Consent in Dry Needling
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.