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Radiography and Clinical Decision-Making in Chiropractic

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Structural and chiropractic

Dose Response.2021 Oct 13;19(4):15593258211044844.

Authors:

M A Lopes, R R Coleman, E J Cremata

Abstract.

The concern over x-ray exposure risks can overshadow the potential benefit of radiography, especially in cases where manual therapy is employed. Spinal malalignment cannot be accurately visualized without imaging. Manual therapy and the load tolerances of injured spinal tissues raise different criteria for the use of x-rays for spinal disorders than in medical practice. Current regulatory bodies rely on radiography risk assessments based on Linear-No-Threshold (LNT) risk models. There is a need to consider radiography guidelines for chiropractic which are different from those for medical practice. Radiography practice guidelines are summaries dominated by frequentist interpretations in the analysis of data from studies. In contrast, clinicians often employ a pseudo-Bayesian form of reasoning during the clinical decision-making process. The overrepresentation of frequentist perspectives in evidence-based practice guidelines alter decision-making away from practical assessment of a patient's needs, toward an overly cautious standard applied to patients without regard to their risk/benefit likelihoods relating to radiography. Guidelines for radiography in chiropractic to fully assess the condition of the spine and spinal alignment prior to manual therapy, especially with high velocity, low amplitude spinal manipulation (HVLA-SM), should necessarily differ from those used in medical practice.

Publication Date: 

2021 Oct

OEID: 

6177

Lopes, AM., Coleman, RR., Cremata, JE. (2021) 'Radiography and Clinical Decision-Making in Chiropractic', Dose Response.2021 Oct 13;19(4):15593258211044844.

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