How do they match: Acupuncturists

  • Acupuncture Physician
  • Naturopathic Physician

  • Diagnose, treat, and prevent disorders by stimulating specific acupuncture points within the body using acupuncture needles. May also use cups, nutritional supplements, therapeutic massage, acupressure, and other alternative health therapies.

  • Analyze physical findings and medical histories to make diagnoses according to Oriental medicine traditions.
  • Apply heat or cold therapy to patients using materials, such as heat pads, hydrocollator packs, warm compresses, cold compresses, heat lamps, or vapor coolants.
  • Assess patients' general physical appearance to make diagnoses.
  • Formulate herbal preparations to treat conditions considering herbal properties, such as taste, toxicity, effects of preparation, contraindications, and incompatibilities.
  • Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments, such as intradermal needles, moxibustion, electricity, guasha, or bleeding.

  • Prepare medications or medical solutions.
  • Prescribe treatments or therapies.
  • Develop treatment plans that use non-medical therapies.
  • Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
  • Treat patients using physical therapy techniques.