Documentation and education
DocuHandsOn provides a way to organize, describe, illustrate, and communicate hands-on techniques. Its technique names, classifications, animations, images, examples, charts, and educational documents are reference materials. They are not patient-specific medical advice, a diagnosis, a treatment recommendation, or a direction to perform a procedure.
No clinical relationship
Using DocuHandsOn does not create a clinician-patient relationship with the operator, the software developer, or a contributing author. The Service is not an emergency service and does not monitor symptoms or treatment. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, contact emergency services immediately.
Qualified professional judgment
Hands-on procedures may present risks and contraindications. Only a practitioner with appropriate training, competence, legal authority, and patient consent should perform them. A video or animation cannot replace supervised training, examination, assessment, or professional judgment. Patients and untrained viewers should not attempt a procedure based on the Service's materials.
The treating practitioner remains responsible for patient selection, screening, diagnosis where authorized, technique selection and modification, consent, treatment, follow-up, and required clinical records. Another practitioner's chart does not remove these responsibilities.
Limits of descriptions and illustrations
Images and animations may simplify a procedure, omit details, or reflect an individual practitioner's approach. They may not show force, direction, timing, safety checks, anatomy, or all elements needed to understand a procedure. Standardized naming does not establish that two performances are clinically equivalent or that a technique is safe for every patient.
The DuBarry classification and technical-chart framework are presented as an approach to description and communication. Their inclusion is not independent validation of clinical effectiveness or regulatory endorsement of the software. User-uploaded content is not necessarily clinically reviewed or endorsed by DocuHandsOn.
Records and professional requirements
A technique number is a reference to a description, not a complete clinical encounter record. Required information about assessment, consent, treatment, response, and follow-up must be maintained in the practitioner's authorized record system. Do not place identifiable patient records in DocuHandsOn under its current permitted use.
No chart guarantees compliance with licensing rules, insurance requirements, malpractice standards, or legal recordkeeping duties. The practitioner must review accuracy, preserve the correct chart version, and satisfy requirements applicable to the practice. The software does not guarantee treatment results, insurance reimbursement, or prevention of injury or legal claims.
Short notice for charts and public pages
"DocuHandsOn charts describe professional hands-on techniques for documentation and education. They are not patient-specific medical advice or instructions for self-treatment. Only appropriately qualified practitioners should perform these procedures after independent assessment and informed treatment consent. A chart does not replace the patient's clinical record."