- Board of Registration in Naturopathy
The purpose of this memo is to provide information about which physical medicine agents naturopathic doctors are authorized to use within their scope of practice.
Naturopathic Doctors use various physical medicine agents as part of their treatment protocols. The below list serves to expand on this particular scope of practice and provide guidelines pursuant to 273 CMR 2.02: “Naturopathic Physical Medicine means the therapeutic use of the physical agents of air, water, heat, cold, sound, light and physical modalities including, but not limited to, electrotherapy, diathermy, ultraviolet light, hydrotherapy, naturopathic manipulative therapy, and therapeutic exercise.”
Diathermy:
- Ultrasound
- Short wave capacitive
- Inductive diathermy
Thermotherapy:
- Hydrocollator packs
- Thermal Design Power heat lamps
- Cryotherapy: ice, frozen gel packs
- Paraffin Wax
Phototherapies:
- Cold lasers - Low Level Laser-Light Therapy
- Ultraviolet light
- Red light therapy
- Pulsed light therapy
- Infrared light and saunas
Topical creams: hot/cold with iontophoresis
Colonic irrigation machines
Ozone generator machines
Hyperbaric Oxygen chamber
Naturopathic Manipulative therapy:
- Manual joint adjustments
- Myofascial and lymphatic release technique
- Trigger point release
- Visceral manipulation
Electrotherapies:
- Sinewave
- Low volt galvanism
- Iontophoresis
- Microcurrent
- High volt pulsed
- Interferential
- Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulator units
- High Frequency current
- Low Frequency Current
- Electromagnetic frequency
- Radiofrequency