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How Doctors of Chiropractic Utilize X-Rays

Article Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet

Author Name: Dr. Jessie Lupo

If you have ever broken a bone, or worried that you had broken a bone, you more than likely had X-rays taken. Simply put, x-rays are electromagnetic waves of high energy and short wavelengths, which travel through a material (in the case of injuries, your body) to produce a photographic or digital image of the internal makeup. Let's take a look at how X-rays are implemented in chiropractic care.

Chiropractors Often Implement X-ray Studies

Based on the nature of your disorder in addition to a number of other factors, x-ray studies of your spine or injured body part may be indicated. Doctors of chiropractic obtain over 300 hours of x-ray studies in college before graduating and thus are fully educated to take radiographs and identify subtle abnormalities of the spine in addition to more serious pathologies.

X-rays Are Safe and Provide Beneficial Information

X-rays are a fairly safe and budget-friendly way to view the framework and basic condition of the spine. They can expose spinal regions under high stress and expose areas of degenerative change. This can often supply essential additional information which coordinates history and examination findings permitting a more accurate spinal analysis and a more personalized and effective treatment plan. X-rays are also useful in assessing the appropriateness of chiropractic care as they can help to eliminate the existence of more serious pathological processes such as spinal fractures, tumors and infections which call for immediate emergency medical intervention.

Procedures Used To Minimize Exposure

While extended exposure to radiation can be potentially harmful to the human body, the diagnostic x-rays implemented by the chiropractic doctor pose a low health risk. In fact, according to radiation guidelines for diagnostic x-ray studies, it would take more than 300 full spine x-rays performed by a chiropractor for these guidelines to be met. Furthermore, the following steps are used to further diminish the amount of x-ray exposure:

Only necessary x-ray views will be taken, minimizing unnecessary x-ray exposure
Shielding & filtration to obstruct or decrease the x-ray beam from having an effect on sensitive tissues and areas of nondiagnostic interest
Rare earth (intensifying) screens can reduce x-ray exposure by 50%
Collimation to limit the x-ray beam to include areas of interest only
Grids to reduce scatter radiation and improve x-ray quality
High speed film lowers exposure time by up to 1/12th as compared to "hospital" x-rays
Increasing kilovoltage and limiting milliamperage additionally reduces x-ray dosage
Very little exposure times of just 100ths of a second
Regular changing of processor chemicals to give high quality, diagnostic films

1. 1988 Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors - Plaugher G. Textbook of Clinical Chiropractic: A Specific Biomechanical Approach. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1993.

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