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O*NET detailed work activityTreat patients using alternative medical procedures
Stays humanHands-on care
5 jobs9 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Treat injuries, illnesses, or diseases, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 9 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Treat patients using tools, such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, or nutritional supplements.
- 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.
- Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment.
- Administer treatments or therapies, such as homeopathy, hydrotherapy, Oriental or Ayurvedic medicine, electrotherapy, and diathermy, using physical agents including air, heat, cold, water, sound, or ultraviolet light to catalyze the body to heal itself.
- Treat medical conditions, using techniques such as acupressure, shiatsu, or tuina.
- Massage body parts to relieve soreness, strains, or bruises.
- Treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs or hydrotherapy.
- Apply moxibustion directly or indirectly to patients using Chinese, non-scarring, stick, or pole moxa.
- Treat deformities using mechanical methods, such as whirlpool or paraffin baths, and electrical methods, such as short wave and low voltage currents.