Hinsdale Chiropractor One of the Select Few in Illinois with Digital Motion X-Ray (DMX)

The video below may look familiar to you if you have ever seen a radiograph, or x-ray, but something is different: it’s moving!  Digital Motion X-Ray (DMX) is a new type of videofluoroscopic x-ray system that uses new digital and optic technology, which allows us at Fisher Chiropractic to view the spine and other joints in real-time motion at 30 x-rays per second. The procedure is performed with the patient standing and actively moving in a weight-bearing position in a way that reproduces the pain.  The vast majority of pain occurs when a person is moving; this is the only technology available that allows us to see what is happening during that time. We are one of a select few in Illinois who has it!

Why do Patients Need Digital Motion X-Ray®? If you are reading this there is a good chance you are in one of two groups: you have pain that is worse with movement and everyone has told you there’s “Nothing wrong” or you suffer from a car accident injury and have been diagnosed with whiplash and it still hasn’t gotten any better.  If you want to identify the cause of these problems so that you can improve them and move on with your life, you are in the right place!  DMX allows for us to see that your joints are moving properly and if ligaments are damaged.  This allows us to develop a treatment plan that will precisely deal with your injury.  Would you blindly replace a fuse if one blew or would you want to know precisely which one was blown so that you could replace the right one?  Of course you wouldn't. You would want to know exactly where the problem is.  DMX allows us to do that.

What’s different about Digital Motion X-Ray and normal x-ray or MRI?  The first and most powerful thing is MOTION.  This technology allows us to see how your body is moving, something neither traditional x-ray nor MRI allow. 

Lets use neck pain as an example.  Chances are you’ve had an x-ray and been told that “everything is fine” or “you have a little arthritis”.  The reason is that X-rays are taken for 3 primary reasons: to rule out fracture, gross dislocation, and/or certain metabolic diseases.  Congratulations, none of these were apparent, but you are still in pain.  MRI’s are excellent at showing discs but there are no discs in the upper 30% of your neck or in the back of your neck.  What is in your neck that doesn’t show up on traditional X-ray or MRI is how your neck is moving and ligaments which little structures that when damaged can cause headaches, neck pain, pain referred into your back and elsewhere, nausea, dizziness and many other symptoms.  DMX is the best imaging tool to see if your neck is moving properly and if any ligaments are damaged. Once we identify if your neck is moving properly and if any ligaments are damaged, we can design a treatment specifically for you.  This holds true to other joints in the body.

If you are in pain whether it’s been for a week or a year, you need to determine the cause.  DMX may well hold the missing key to showing what is wrong and getting you out of pain so that you can enjoy your life and get back to living!