PURPOSE

KNOWING IS BETTER THAN GUESSING

REASONS FOR RADIOGRAPHIC PROCEDURES

Practicing Chiropractors’ Committee for Radiology Protocols [P.C.C.R.P.]

The following are 27 reasons for radiographic analysis developed through research, studies, professional standards, and adopted by the International Chiropractors Association: 

  1. Abnormal gait
  2. Abnormal posture
  3. Any “Red Flag Conditions” covered in previous guidelines
  4. Axial pain
  5. Birth Trauma (forceps)
  6. Delayed developmental conditions
  7. Eye and vision problems other than corrective lenses
  8. Facial pain
  9. Follow-up for previous deformity, previous abnormal posture, previous spinal subluxation/displacement, previous spinal instability
  10. Headache
  11. Hearing disorders, vertigo, tinnitus
  12. Neurological conditions
  13. Pain upon spinal movement
  14. Post surgical evaluation
  15. Radiating pain (upper extremity, intercostal, lower extremity)
  16. Restricted or abnormal motion
  17. Spasm, inflammation, or tenderness
  18. Spinal deformity (Scoliosis, hyper-kyphosis, hypo-kyphosis)
  19. Spinal Subluxation (defined in this document)
  20. Suspected abnormal pelvic morphology
  21. Suspected Congenital anomaly
  22. Suspected osteoporosis
  23. Suspected short leg
  24. Suspected spinal degeneration
  25. Suspected spinal instability
  26. Systemic health problems (skin diseases, asthma, auto-immune diseases, organ dysfunction )
  27. Trauma, especially trauma to the spine
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