Osteopath Skills - How To Scan a Xray

treating adults Oct 28, 2020

There's so many osteopathic skills that we need to develop that often skills like reading an xray quickly gets pushed to the bottom of the queue. And that's really understandable as if its a choice between that and good palpation and osteopathic technique, I know what I'd choose! So this video is to help out on that score and in just 5 minutes give you some keys points when scanning a C Spine xray for a patient.

Because scanning can be all you have time for initially as often with a new patient you get the xrays there and then as you first meet them. Hopefully, you'll get a report as well, but that will focus on nasties and not on the spinal alignment that we will look at in this tutorial.