Frightened by The X Rays a Chiropractor Recommends? Fear the Medical, if any…
People worry
about radiation exposure from x rays taken by chiropractors
and medical physicians.
For our purposes, we will show comparisons with other
medical procedures carried out daily, and show you just how
LOW a dose from a few neck x rays really is; even a
full-spine x ray.
Compared with a trip over to Europe or USA, a spinal x ray
is almost negligible when risk/benefit assessment is taken
into account.
That is: air travel in the upper atmosphere magnifies your
exposure to x rays on the whole trip. And I am unaware of
any raised cancer risk in airline pilots.
My colleague who is a professor of radiology at one of the
Australian Universities gave me these figures:
|
Procedure
|
Dosage
|
| Neck x
ray
|
40uSv
|
| Full
Spine x ray
|
700uSv
|
| CT
Spine
|
14,000uSv
|
| Radiotherapy
for cancer
|
70,000,000uSv
|
The dose value is measured in Micro Sieverts (uSv)
The value for a cancer patient getting therapy is approx.
over a million times more. They do this even though they
know it may CAUSE more cancer. ie: the risk/benefit is
taken as positive.
So your next chiropractic spinal x ray is only dangerous if
it is not necessary. Otherwise, it is one of the safest
procedures with our state of the art collimation,
shielding, high frequency generators and new digital
systems even more so.
Table
From:
http://www.radiologyinfo.org January 10,
2005 A Source for Patients
