Thirty-six percent teach at chiropractic colleges. They feel most confident to interpret plain film studies of the musculoskeletal system. Many have undergone advanced training in specialized imaging. They feel topics related patient positioning, plain film physics, arthritides, trauma, avascular necrosis and tumors are most important to a chiropractic curriculum. Most respondents feel the use of plain film radiology is most appropriate where the clinical presentation of the patient suggests strong possibility of underlying disease.
Radiology is an important topic to the education of students and the practice of chiropractic.
The results of this survey will assist future decisions regarding student education and clinical use of radiology. Chiropractic management of a patient with low back pain and epileptic seizures. Joel Alcantara, DC, Roger Heschong DC, Gregory Plaugher, DC, and Joey Alcantara. She had been diagnosed since childhood as having grand time of chiropractic evaluation, the frequency of her seizures was reported at three-hour intervals, with a duration between 10 seconds to 30 minutes for each episode. There was no evidence of cranial nerve involvement or any upper motor neuron lesion.