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Diagnose, treat, and help prevent illness using naturopathic principles and the body's innate healing capacity. Integrate lifestyle counseling, physical medicine, and natural therapies; order and interpret labs and imaging; collaborate with other providers; and prescribe natural medicines and, where permitted, pharmaceuticals.
- • Perform joint and soft-tissue mobilizations and high-velocity adjustments using massage, stretching, or resistance principles.
- • Maintain professional development through continuing education, preceptorships, residencies, and postgraduate study.
- • Order and interpret diagnostic imaging (x-rays, ultrasound, mammography, bone densitometry) or refer as appropriate.
- • Administer naturopathic therapies (e.g., homeopathy, hydrotherapy, Oriental/Ayurvedic medicine, electrotherapy, diathermy) using agents such as air, heat, cold, water, sound, or ultraviolet light.
- • Prescribe, dispense, or administer natural medicines, including botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, amino acids, and medical foods.
- • Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnosis.
- • Interview patients and document symptoms and comprehensive health histories.
- • Educate patients on health management, prevention, and self-care.
- • Advise on therapeutic exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine regimens.
- • Diagnose conditions using history, exam findings, laboratory data, imaging, and physiologic measurements (e.g., ECG, EEG).
- • Perform venipuncture and skin pricks to collect blood samples.
- • Treat minor cuts, abrasions, and contusions.
- • Prescribe pharmaceuticals within scope of practice or under collaborative arrangements, per regulations.
- • Document encounters, including identifying data, chief complaints, past and family history, and psychosocial factors.
- • Perform minor office procedures, such as removing warts, moles, or cysts; sampling tissues; and applying or removing sutures.
- • Consult and coordinate with other health professionals, referring to conventional care when indicated.
- • Report required public health data (e.g., notifiable diseases, births) to public health agencies.
- • Monitor public health updates to stay current on emerging health trends.
- • Provide or coordinate immunizations and screenings for diseases and risk factors, as permitted.
- • Obtain and review medical records from prior providers for evaluation.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
