Perform mobilizations and high-velocity adjustments to joints or soft tissues, using principles of massage, stretching, or resistance.

“Perform mobilizations and high-velocity adjustments to joints or soft tissues, using principles of massage, stretching, or resistance.” is a core task performed by Naturopathic Physicians. Among the occupation's 20 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#16 most important). About 76% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Administer therapeutic treatments. in Assisting and Caring for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Document patients' histories, including identifying data, chief complaints, illnesses, previous medical or family histories, or psychosocial characteristics. · importance 5.0
• Educate patients about health care management. · importance 4.9
• Advise patients about therapeutic exercise and nutritional medicine regimens. · importance 4.9
• Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes. · importance 4.9
• Administer, dispense, or prescribe natural medicines, such as food or botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and amino acids. · importance 4.8
• Interview patients to document symptoms and health histories. · importance 4.8
• Diagnose health conditions, based on patients' symptoms and health histories, laboratory and diagnostic radiology test results, or other physiological measurements, such as electrocardiograms and electroencephalographs. · importance 4.7
• 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. · importance 4.4
• Consult with other health professionals to provide optimal patient care, referring patients to traditional health care professionals as necessary. · importance 4.4
• Order diagnostic imaging procedures such as radiographs (x-rays), ultrasounds, mammograms, and bone densitometry tests, or refer patients to other health professionals for these procedures. · importance 4.3
• Maintain professional development through activities such as postgraduate education, continuing education, preceptorships, and residency programs. · importance 4.2
• Obtain medical records from previous physicians or other health care providers for the purpose of patient evaluation. · importance 4.0
• Conduct periodic public health maintenance activities such as immunizations and screenings for diseases and disease risk factors. · importance 3.9
• Perform venipuncture or skin pricking to collect blood samples. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Naturopathic Physicians page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Perform mobilizations and high-velocity adjustments to joints or soft tissues, using principles of massage, stretching, or resistance.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-18405}
}