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  • Chiropractic and Diagnostic Imaging
  • Radiography Risk Assessment
  • Evidence-Based Practice

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  • X-ray exposure concerns can outweigh benefits, particularly in manual therapy.
  • Accurate spinal malalignment assessment requires imaging.
  • Chiropractic spinal disorders present different criteria for X-ray use compared to medical practice.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advocate for distinct radiography guidelines in chiropractic care.
  • To address the limitations of current risk assessment models (Linear-No-Threshold) in chiropractic.
  • To align evidence-based guidelines with clinical decision-making processes.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of current radiography risk assessment models.
  • Comparison of frequentist and pseudo-Bayesian reasoning in clinical practice.
  • Review of evidence-based practice guidelines in chiropractic.

Main Results:

  • Current guidelines may lead to overly cautious X-ray use, disregarding patient-specific risk/benefit ratios.
  • Frequentist perspectives in guidelines can shift decision-making away from practical patient needs.
  • Existing guidelines do not adequately account for the specific demands of chiropractic manual therapy.

Conclusions:

  • Radiography guidelines for chiropractic must be tailored to the profession's unique patient population and therapeutic modalities.
  • A shift towards patient-centered risk/benefit analysis is needed for chiropractic radiography.
  • Guidelines should support comprehensive spinal assessment prior to manual therapies like high-velocity, low-amplitude spinal manipulation (HVLA-SM).