How does radiographic imaging help to diagnose the underlying cause of pain?
Radiologic Imaging can help diagnose the underlying cause of pain by highlighting red flags or yellow flags that could indicate a more serious issue. It can also be used to look for findings that are not pain generators but may still contribute to pain in other areas of the body. Transcript: "How does radiologic Imaging help diagnose the underlying cause of pain? Well, Imaging is kind of laid out for me in more of what not to do versus what to do. My physical exam guides me a lot on what I want to do with the patient water. Main patient goals are whether it's increasing Mobility, increasing, stability, increasing or enhancing, a functional movement, however, radiographs I'll send out based off of red flags. Eggs or yellow flags and other words, a yellow flag might be chi. The person is not responding to conservative care. Otherwise, we should probably take a closer, look, a red flag is they are someone of a specific age or older age, and they've had rapid weight loss or weight gain. They have fever some other type of form of concern that might lend us to one achieve radiographic images as well as just simply trauma. Compared to something that's been an overuse injury. Oftentimes radiographs will show up findings that are not pain generators but they might contribute to pain at a different side of the body so they can be helpful in a lot of regards, they're not my absolute go to first thing. However, if people aren't responding, they are extremely helpful. Not just radiographic Imaging but diagnostic old sound MRI CT scan, as well as other Forms have evaluating, the person's functional movement."
Dr. Ted Forcum
USA Olympic Team Chiropractor
How does radiologic Imaging help diagnose the underlying cause of pain? Well, Imaging is kind of laid out for me in more of what not to do versus what to do. My physical exam guides me a lot on what I want to do with the patient water. Main patient goals are whether it's increasing Mobility, increasing, stability, increasing or enhancing, a functional movement, however, radiographs I'll send out based off of red flags. Eggs or yellow flags and other words, a yellow flag might be chi. The person is not responding to conservative care. Otherwise, we should probably take a closer, look, a red flag is they are someone of a specific age or older age, and they've had rapid weight loss or weight gain. They have fever some other type of form of concern that might lend us to one achieve radiographic images as well as just simply trauma. Compared to something that's been an overuse injury. Oftentimes radiographs will show up findings that are not pain generators but they might contribute to pain at a different side of the body so they can be helpful in a lot of regards, they're not my absolute go to first thing. However, if people aren't responding, they are extremely helpful. Not just radiographic Imaging but diagnostic old sound MRI CT scan, as well as other Forms have evaluating, the person's functional movement.
Dr. Lisa Goodman, DC
Pediatric & Sports Chiro, Youth CF Coach
How does radiographic Imaging help to diagnose the underlying cause of pain? Well, our first step in diagnosing the underlying cause of pain is taking a really thorough history on a patient. 90% of what we hear from them is going to help us come to our diagnosis. Another probably 8% from the physical exam and then I would say 2% from Imaging, we want to get Imaging when something is not responding to care in the time frame that we think it will based on our diagnosis, we want Get Imaging, if there are red flags. If there's some trauma where we need to rule out fracture or dislocation if we're worried about infection or tumor, those are things that will help. Now, a lot of times Imaging can really help with a patient, determining their prognosis. So oftentimes clinically we know that there's a disc involvement of Bulger herniation but it's very helpful. If a patient can actually see that on image and say, oh, that's what you were talking about. About. So, a lot of times we get it to reinforce the diagnosis, there is sort of the flipside to Imaging, which if you image every single person routinely you could see a lot of things on Imaging that actually don't impact them physically or Spore match up with their symptoms. And so that's just not something we really want to do. We really want to get into Imaging and use it to reinforce a clinical diagnosis or rule out a major pathology