Documentation doesn't seem to be the problem, every chiropractor knows how to keep proper notes and records on their patient's progress and wel being. It's the instrumentation that their always seems to be a problem with. Many chiropractors aree very skeptic and really don't understand the basis of instrumentation because they were never taught it when they were in school. This is foreign and to many what is not fully understood or know seems to scare them away. This is one of the most powerful ways of knowing if what you are doing is actually helping your patient or if you should maybe re-evaluate what needs to be done to render better care to your patient.
Instrumentation is a very important, as it always has been, part of chiropractic.
For many years, I was in charge of the instrumentation department at Palmer College of Chiropractic, which at that time comsisted of only the neurocalometer and neurocalagraph. From the beginning of chiropractic, the chiropractor was interested in the difference in the temperature he found over the spine. Before instrumentation, early chiropractors, would run the back of the hand slowly down the patient's back to lacate 'hot spots' along the spine. These hot spots aided him in locating subluxations. Later, an instrument was developed at Palmer College to more accurately catalog these differences in the temperature.