Why Did We Perform a NUCCA X-ray Alignment?
The silver-lining from our recent black mold evacuation, is finding a new chiropractor who is committed to providing the best NUCCA (National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association) care, who has the best X-ray equipment for doing so, who is eager to engage in the NUCCA certification program and is willing to share that equipment with us black mold refugees.
Who Will Replace You?
For years, patients have asked me, “who will replace you when you retire?” “Will this person be able to diagnose, treat and get the results that you do?” Originally I had been screening chiropractic students and new chiropractors for my internship program in hopes of training them to become Boulder Chiropractic Clinic associates. That plan was postponed when our clinic was flooded, black mold infected, and we were forced to evacuated it.
Fortunately, we found Dr. Norris Golberg of KORU Chiropractic in Louisville, who has the X-ray equipment required for our National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association (NUCCA) X-ray examinations. He had opened his office 2 years earlier and was committed to becoming an excellent NUCCA doctor.
How to Become an Excellent NUCCA Doctor?
Dr. Golberg committed to enter Level 1 of the three-level NUCCA certification program — the first step of which is NUCCA X-ray alignment. For accurate NUCCA X-ray analysis and diagnosis, the doctor must use an X-ray machine which is aligned so the central ray of the X-ray field intersects the center of, and is perpendicular to, the X-ray sensor. Additionally, the head-centering calipers, alignment mask or glabella bar, and chin-centering slot must be perfectly centered upon that central ray. By using a NUCCA-certified X-ray machine, patient placement and X-ray technique, the doctor will produce images, the features of which may be identified, measured and interpreted with accuracy to a fraction of one degree. And this is just the beginning.
What About the Video?
This video is about the whys and hows of the alignment of Dr. Golberg’s X-ray machine. It represents 40 hours of our time, making the adjustments needed for the alignment, achieving and submitting the alignment-proving images to NUCCA, and NUCCA’s certification of that alignment. For the sake of time, it leaves out many of the details. We hope you appreciate the importance of this project for producing the best clinical outcomes for our patients.