Occupational Employment Statistics
29-1291 Acupuncturists
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. Excludes “Chiropractors†(29-1011).
| Professional and Business Services | N/A | N/A |
| Education and Health Services | 140 | $42.75/hr |
- Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes.
- Treat patients using tools, such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, or nutritional supplements.
- Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment.
- Consider Western medical procedures in health assessment, health care team communication, and care referrals.
- Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental, and infection control policies and procedures.
- 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.
- Maintain detailed and complete records of health care plans and prognoses.
- Collect medical histories and general health and lifestyle information from patients.
- Analyze physical findings and medical histories to make diagnoses according to Oriental medicine traditions.
- Assess patients' general physical appearance to make diagnoses.