General information on therapeutic modalities offered by a Natural Therapy Practitioner (Naturterapeut MNNH) The Norwegian Association of Natural Medicine (NNH) organize therapists who practise different modalities of alternative or natural medicine. Some therapists practise only one form of treatment modality, whereas the main body of members are making use of several different therapeutics or modes of treatment in their clinical practice. Since NNH-Therapists are not permitted to market themselves in other modes of therapy than the ones in which they are approved, patients may feel safe of receiving a qualified treatment in the therapies employed, whether this is one modality of treatment or a combination of several such modalities. The different Therapeutics Committees or the Central Board and the Annual Meeting respectively exercise the responsible position of determining the required level of education in different branches of therapy. The fact that most NNH-Therapists integrate several therapeutic modalities in their practice, has enabled NNH to secure a quality and solidity of different basic educations adapted to a modern practice of natural medicine. This requirement for general knowledge of health services serves as a prerequisite condition for further education. Today the prerequisites of general knowledge for all NNH-Therapists are a minimum of 300 hours of teacher conducted lessons, or the equivalent of 30 points of study in the college system, consisting of basic scientific medical subjects (anatomy, physiology and pathology), 50 hours of teacher conducted lessons in general subjects (theory and principles of science, ethics, communication and social sciences) and 110 hours […]