CR Re-centering When Angling - Video Lesson

Now I wanna tell you a little bit about how to recenter the central ray. So this was another one of those when I was doing the peer review for our book, and I read this part, and I couldn't believe it. Because at that point, I'd been a tech for well over thirty five years, and I never knew this. I never knew how to actually figure out where to put the central ray when you start angling. I would always just do I'd eyeball it, you know? And I figured that is just the way you do it, and the better you are, the better you can eyeball it. And it turns out to be, there's an exact way to do this thing, and you don't have to eyeball it. And this is how you do it. So we'll start first with recentering the CR, which is the central ray, when you're angling cephalad or caudad. So the rule of thumb is this. As you're working on any part of the trunk or