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Sicklerville, New Jersey

X-ray in motion.

Your scan came back normal.

Every one of them was a photograph.

An X-ray, a CT, an MRI — each one captures a single moment that you hold on purpose, as still as you can manage.

But instability is a problem of movement.

If a joint travels further than it should, it does that while you are moving. Hold still and it settles back where it belongs — and the picture looks fine.

So we film the neck while it moves.

Up to thirty X-ray images every second, recorded while you turn, bend and look up. Not a photograph. A video.

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Digital Motion X-ray

What it is

A video X-ray of your neck, taken while your neck is moving.

A standard X-ray or MRI captures one position, held. A Digital Motion X-ray records continuously — up to thirty images per second — while you turn your head side to side, bend forward, and look up.

That difference matters for one specific reason. Some things only exist in motion. A joint that travels further than it should does so while it's moving; ask it to hold a position for a photograph and it returns to where it belongs. The photograph is accurate. It's just answering a different question.

The DMX is designed to capture the movement itself, so it can be played back and reviewed frame by frame.

A still scan

One moment, held

X-ray, CT and MRI are excellent at showing structure — fractures, discs, soft tissue, tumours. They capture a position you hold deliberately, usually lying down.

A motion study

The movement itself

A DMX records the whole range of motion as video, upright and weight-bearing. It is designed to show how the joints behave while they move.

What it looks like

Real studies, read in this office.

Lateral Digital Motion X-ray view of a cervical spine in profile
Lateral viewThe neck in profile, recorded through a full range of forward and backward motion.
Open-mouth Digital Motion X-ray view of the top two cervical vertebrae
Open-mouth viewLooks straight at the top two vertebrae — the joint just beneath the skull — during side-to-side motion.
Close Digital Motion X-ray view of the upper cervical spine
Upper cervicalA closer look at the junction between the base of the skull and the top of the spine.

Real DMX studies performed at this office, shown with patient permission. Examples only — not a diagnosis, and not a claim about any individual result.

Who it's for

Most people who come here already have a folder of normal scans.

A Digital Motion X-ray is often considered for people dealing with:

  • 01
    Neck pain or headaches after a car accident or whiplashIncluding symptoms that began weeks or months after the accident itself.
  • 02
    POTS and dysautonomiaWhere upper-neck mechanics are part of what's being looked at.
  • 03
    Ehlers-Danlos and hypermobilityConnective tissue that allows more movement than usual, including at the neck.
  • 04
    Chronic head, neck and jaw painThat standard imaging hasn't explained.
  • 05
    Dizziness, visual disturbance or brain fog with a neck component
  • 06
    Anyone told their imaging is normal while their symptoms continue

Being scanned is not the same as being a candidate for treatment. An evaluation comes first, and not everyone who has a DMX here goes on to any particular care.

What happens

Three steps, in this order.

01

Evaluation first

Before any imaging, the office goes through your history and examines how your neck actually moves. A DMX is only worth doing if it's likely to add something you don't already know.

The DMX imaging room at the Sicklerville office
02

The scan

You stand upright between the two arms of the machine. Nothing touches you and the machine doesn't move — you do. You'll be asked to turn your head slowly side to side, bend forward, and look up, while the study records. It takes a few minutes.

A patient standing upright between the arms of the Digital Motion X-ray machine
03

Watching it back

The study is reviewed as video, frame by frame — and you watch it too. You'll be walked through what's on the screen, what it shows, and just as importantly what it doesn't.

A Digital Motion X-ray study being reviewed frame by frame on screen at the office

After the scan

The scan is the diagnostic step.

A DMX is designed to answer a question — not to begin a treatment. What happens next depends entirely on what the study shows and what the evaluation found.

This office is also home to SWAVE, an acoustic-wave treatment. Some people who have a DMX here go on to be evaluated for it. Many don't. They are separate things, and the imaging comes first.

The scan is booked by phone.

Call the office and ask about a Digital Motion X-ray. Someone will talk you through whether it makes sense for your situation.

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