The mission of this website is to serve as a resource for confirming that doctors and healers practicing alternative pain relief and pain management therapies -- Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Massage Therapy and Naprapathy -- meet licensing qualifications and standards for professional practice in their state. These alternative medicine professionals offer a clear advantage over unregulated alternative pain relief therapies and their practitioners.

What Does Licensed Alternative Medicine Pain Relief Involve?

Certification demonstrates that a practitioner has successfully completed an approved educational program and passed an examination designed to assess the knowledge, experience and skills necessary for high quality pain management treatments in that specialty.

What's more, to maintain their licensed status, alternative medicine doctors and natural healers are required to participate in continuing education, have their credentials reviewed and undergo further examination.

Licensed Alternative Medicine Pain Relief = High Quality

In the cluttered market of alternative medicine pain relief therapies, licensing is an important distinction. Without its high, legally enforced standards, alternative medicine therapies could become an alternative to quality.

Gaining and maintaining a license is not only a rigorous process for alternative medicine doctors and natural healers, but attaining it has been a long fought battle for these practitioners.

For years, Doctors of Naprapathy, Doctors of Chiropractic, Massage Therapy and Acupuncture healers, have struggled, state by state, against an often resistant medical establishment for legislative recognition. Achieving state licensed status was not only a victory for these alternative medicine doctors and natural healers, but also for consumers seeking pain relief as well.

Where Are Licensed Alternative Medicine Doctors and Healers?

Though Doctors of Chiropractic are licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, 35 states license Acupuncture and 25 states license Massage Therapy, Doctors of Naprapathy are only licensed by Illinois.

Use the buttons below to find alternative medicine doctors and natural healers in your area and to check the licensing status of these pain relief and pain management professionals