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How to Properly Move a C-Arm - Video Lesson

Now we wanna show you how to properly move the c arm in and out and end up in the same place. The classic part of this whole story is that I just learned this trick last year, and I've been a radiographer for well over thirty five years. So I don't know how long people in my department already knew about this, but when I found out about it, it was like a life changer. And the reason is is that normally if the, you know, the surgeon says, okay, back out and you back straight out, when you go back in again, you never end up in the same place as where you started. But the trick is you turn the the the tire, the wheels just a little bit, maybe a twenty to thirty degree turn. And now instead of going straight out, you're going at that angle, and the way the whole wheels track, you'll end up in the same place. So we have two pieces