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Do I Need To Get X-rays When I Go To A Chiropractor?
New thinking on chiropractic imaging
For generations, it has been well-recognized that chiropractors take x-rays. In fact, chiropractors are trained to read x-rays in school at a level no general medical practitioner is taught. In some cases, they take A LOT of x-rays. However, as with anything else in health care, as more is learned through research, common practices are often reassessed and updated when necessary. Taking x-rays is a prime example of this as they are currently being cussed and discussed at the highest levels of the profession.
Basically, as it seems to be with just about everything in the chiropractic profession, there are two camps. One supports the use of x-rays to determine safety of treatment, type of treatment, and then shooting several x-rays periodically throughout treatment to ‘validate’ the treatments effectiveness. On the other end of the spectrum, you have chiropractors that are on board with the newer research, evidence, and recommendations.
One of the largest uproars in the profession came about approximately 3 years ago in 2017 when the largest chiropractic organization in America, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), presented their new recommendation program called Choosing Wisely. Basically, the ACA said to avoid routine spinal imaging in the absence of clear clinical indicators for patients with acute low back pain of fewer than six weeks duration. According to the ACA, ‘clear indicators’ were conditions like history of cancer, fracture or suspected fracture progressive neurologic symptoms, and infection. Not to mention other complicating factors like osteopenia, osteoporosis, tumors.
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