Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

The X-Ray Debate in Chiropractic

13 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Jeff Langmaid introduces a long-running controversy in chiropractic over the use of X-rays, noting the debate dates back to soon after chiropractic’s founding. He outlines multiple reasons the issue is contentious: ties to specific techniques, differences in education, clinical implications, patient education, and varying individual perceptions. Langmaid suggests some disagreements are legitimate from individual perspectives and that researchers sometimes take a holistic, population-level view to step back from individual clinician views.

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This has been a topic that has probably been literally controversial in chiropractic since like the year after chiropractic was founded A constant source of tension between different types of chiropractors between at some times governments and chiropractors and sometimes it has been state associations different practice management groups you name it X rays have been a bone of contention you get the point for a really really long time and there is a variety of reasons on why that's the case X rays can be tied to technique in some cases it can be tied to how somebody was educated in other cases it can be tied to things like clinical implications in some cases it can be tied to patient education in other cases and some of what I just said you might be like that's the problem and some you might be like that's why it's necessary all can be correct and they can be correct through the perception of individual chiropractors however studies like this say let's step back from the individual and look at the holistic reasons so.