Occupation information for

Provide treatment of symptoms and disorders using needles and small electrical currents. May provide massage treatment. May also provide preventive treatments.

Currently Employed: 55,600

Yearly Projected Openings: 2,120

Typical Hourly Wage: $26.39 - $51.62

Typical Annual Salary: $54,900 - $107,400

• Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment.
• Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental and infection control policies and procedures.
• Adhere to local, state and federal laws, regulations and statutes.
• 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.
• Maintain detailed and complete records of health care plans and prognoses.
• 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.
• Develop individual treatment plans and strategies.
• Evaluate treatment outcomes and recommend new or altered treatments as necessary to further promote, restore, or maintain health.
• Collect medical histories and general health and life style information from patients.

• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Hypodermic needles
• Medical heat lamps or accessories
• Neuromuscular stimulators or kits
• Therapeutic heating or cooling units or systems