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Job Description
Provide treatment of symptoms and disorders using needles and small electrical currents. May provide massage treatment. May also provide preventive treatments.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1199.01
Also Known As…
- Licensed Acupuncturist
- Acupuncturist
- Acupuncture Physician
- Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner
- Naturopathic Physician
- Herbalist
- Clinic Supervisor
- Auricular Therapist
- Auricular Detoxification Specialist
- Auricular Acupuncturist
- Acupressurist
- Acupressure Therapist
Tasks for “Acupuncturists”
- Treat medical conditions using techniques such as acupressure, shiatsu, and tuina.
- Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment.
- Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments such as intradermal needles, moxibution, electricity, guasha, and bleeding.
- Formulate herbal preparations to treat conditions considering herbal properties such as taste, toxicity, effects of preparation, contraindications, and incompatibilities.
- Maintain detailed and complete records of health care plans and prognoses.
- Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental and infection control policies and procedures.
- Dispense herbal formulas and inform patients of dosages and frequencies, treatment duration, possible side effects and drug interactions.
- Adhere to local, state and federal laws, regulations and statutes.
- Evaluate treatment outcomes and recommend new or altered treatments as necessary to further promote, restore, or maintain health.
- Analyze physical findings and medical histories to make diagnoses according to Oriental medicine traditions.
- Treat patients using tools such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, and nutritional supplements.
- Consider Western medical procedures in health assessment, health care team communication, and care referrals.
- Assess patients' general physical appearance to make diagnoses.
- Develop individual treatment plans and strategies.
- Apply moxibustion directly or indirectly to patients using Chinese, non-scarring, stick, or pole moxa.
- Apply heat or cold therapy to patients using materials such as heat pads, hydrocollator packs, warm compresses, cold compresses, heat lamps, and vapor coolants.
- Collect medical histories and general health and life style information from patients.
- Educate patients on topics such as meditation, ergonomics, stretching, exercise, nutrition, the healing process, breathing, and relaxation techniques.
Related Technology & Tools
- Four sensor probes
- Trancutaneous electrical nerve stimulation TENS units
- Dressing forceps
- Tongue depressors
- Hemostat clamps
- Buck neurological hammers
- Therapeutic cooling packs
- Wartenberg pinwheels
- Babinski hammers
- Dual head stethoscopes
- Needle plungers
- Press needles
- Splinter forceps
- Manaka hammers
- Filiform acupuncture needles
- Adson forceps
- Pulsed magnetic field generators
- Hand exercise balls
- Adenoid sphygmomanometers
- Intradermal acupuncture needles
- Three-edged bloodletting needles
- Hydrocollator units
- Blood pressure monitors
- Infrared heat lamps
- Wide grip tweezers
- Digital heat lamps
- Needle inserters
- Ear tacks
- Air ion testers
- Moxa burning bowls
- Scissor pincettes
- Tiger warmers
- Massage tables
- Therapeutic acupuncture magnets
- Ultrasound massagers
- Moxa cans
- Magnetic cupping sets
- Digital electronic acupunctoscopes
- Microcurrent systems
- Moxa spoons
- Rolling drums
- Hand rollers
- Autoclave sterilizers
- Operating scissors
- Vibration massagers
- Magnetic finger rings
- Moxa extinguishers
- Crystal probes
- Gua sha tools
- Pen probes
- Moxa burners
- Plastic cupping sets
- Moxa boxes
- Electroacupuncture stimulation units
- Biohazard containers
- Ear needles
- Foot rollers
- Otoscopes
- Ionizers
- Acupuncture needle guide tubes
- Herb grinders
- Handheld digital thermometers
- Angle tip forceps
- Therapeutic heating packs
- Glass cupping sets
- Positioning bolsters
- Mineral wave lamps
- Tack tweezers
- Portable heat lamps
- Lancet needles
- Acutonics tuning forks
- Massage chairs
- Ion pumps
- Seven-star needles
- Electronic muscle stimulators
- Lockable forceps
- Laser pens
- Acupuncture ear probes
- Taylor-type percussion hammers
- Bandage scissors
- AcuPartner Professional
- AcuBase Pro
- Microsoft Excel
- QPuncture II
- Electronic health record EHR software
- Qchart
- Qpalm Acupuncture
- Miridia Technology AcuGraph