Are Chiropractic X-rays necessary?
Our information on the safety of x-rays for adults and children do not come from Maximized Living, but from the state governing bodies, experts on adult and pediatric examination, and extensive years of college training under certified teachers of x-ray physics. If you look at the minimal dose, the safety of a Chiropractic x-ray is clear. However, what you don’t see here is the fact that it would be actually impossible to measure any actual absorption of that dose at all. Absolutely nothing exists in any literature that even suggests that a spinal x-ray, with as little radiation as they provide, has ever caused any future difficulty. Anyone who would even suggest this is simply a proponent of traditional medicine, anti-chiropractic, or drawing conclusions from information on soft tissue x-rays like mammograms which have many, many, many times the dose. MOST IMPORTANTLY, any potential safety issues pale in comparison to the need to see and properly diagnose spinal conditions. If problem
