Practicing Chiropractors Committee on Radiology Protocals

The chiropractic profession is very unique in its approach to health, and has suffered as guidelines developed for other professions have in some case been inappropriately applied to the chiropractic profession.  No where is this more evident that in the area of radiological assessment, a hallmark of our profession.  The difficulty of placing medical guidelines on our profession is that they do not match what we do or our needs.  Their guidelines are not in the field manual adjusting as their providers are not adjusting the spines of their patients.  We as chiropractor’s have always had other or additional usage for our radigraphic interpretation in helping us to determine what we were going to do with our patients.  One of the best new guidelines being introduced today is being introduced under the name of “Practicing Chiropractors Committee on Radiology Protocols”.  This document should be not only used but it should be supported as it provides information from a non-profit, non-special interest group on how a practicing chiropractor in the field uses radiographic studies to assist with the care of his or her patients.  To see this document if you have not already reviewed it go to www.pccrp.org

What is the National Guidelines Clearing House

The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America’s Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]).

The NGC Mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use.

This is a very important site as some of our chiropractic guidelines are litsed there http://www.ngc.gov/search/searchresults.aspx?Type=3&txtSearch=chiropractic&num=20.  Becoming familar with the purpose of this site and who had input with it and what is the criteria for guideline submission can be very important in documentation.

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Welcome to our Blog

This blog will allow anyone a chance to ask questions and to help us refine the health industry usage of this procedure called x-ray digitization or accurate “Stress Radiography” bio-mechanical interpretation.  Anyone can provide questions that we will address, including but not limited to, providers, attorneys or insurance medical department reviewers.  We have no problem with and welcome professional dialogue regarding this procedure.  

Our First Post

Hello and welcome to our site.  My name is Jeffrey Cronk, DC and many of you know I have a company called National Injury Diagnostics (www.nationalinjurydiagnostics.com).  My company is involved with bringing providers that most accurate bio-mechanical analysis of their patient’s “Stress Radiography” for both static and DMX imaging.  This blog is to address in a professional manner the re-emerging field of “Stress Radiography” and it’s beneficial application to clinical practice.  I have a lot of experience in this field and feel that the subject and procedure has a lot offer in the clinical area of Trauma Imaging.  I welcome you to our blog and to the dialogue.  Please feel free to ask us any questions or leave us your comments on anything that you read here.