Are your X-ray and medical imaging results helpful or harmful?

We don’t just help people lose weight, we also help them feel better and get them out of pain.  Sometimes that involves hearing second hand what their doctors have said to them using x-ray or medical imaging results to base their opinions off of.  Often times we ask ourselves – do these x-ray and medical imaging results help or harm our clients?

 

 

 

First, understand our stance on Medical Doctors – they are not god.  What they say is based on years of developing critical thinking skills in the medical arena.  For the most part that’s what a doctor does – they look at the situation, acquire information, interpret that information and then use critical thinking skills to determine the best course of action.  Their word is not gospel, they are human and therefore can/do make mistakes AND their bias (like everyone’s) plays heavily into their treatment plans.

A mechanic will often tell you your car needs work – a surgeon will often tell you that you need surgery.

Doctors are no different.

 

Of course they have your best interest at heart (hopefully), however, there is one hurdle all doctors must overcome – exposure.

 

If you come to KDR 4 times a week every week for a year that’s 208 visits, that’s 208 times that we are exposed to you.  How you move, how you carry yourself, how you respond to physical/emotional stress, how you eat, how easy it is to get you to change, etc.  We have more exposure in one year to a single person then they will most likely have to the entire medical community in their lifetime.

 

So, we see the people that are “bone on bone” or “hip replacement candidates” and let me just say – it’s not as bad as the doctor makes it out to be.

 

This is a great video explaining that.  Most doctors (excluding PT’s, but their job isn’t to interpret imaging results) have no idea of how the body works when it comes down to skeletal muscle systems impacting the whole body.  Sure your knee might be riddled with arthritis but that’s because your glutes are weak, your ankles are tight and your hamstrings are locked down…all leading to your knee having problems with how it works with the rest of the body.  Just because something is “bone on bone” doesn’t mean you’re screwed!

 

Take 6 minutes – watch this video.  Please.  If you’re going through a situation where you are in pain and the doctor has taken imaging of you to back up his explanation of why you’re in pain, you need to watch this.  Don’t go that surgery route!