There was an interesting study done a few years ago where the researchers gathered a bunch of folks who had NO back pain or leg symptoms, and ran 'em through an MRI. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...99407143310201
25% of them had disc bulges so honkin' gigantic that they were instant candidates for surgery.
But they had no symptoms.
EVERY single day I have patients with classic disc symptoms, yet their MRI show no evil bulges at all, just minor stuff that raises no red flags. I treat them like a disc problem, and their symptoms go away.
It is possible for distribution pattern of symptoms to be more accurate diagnostically for symptom-generator level than MRI.
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10-22-2010, 07:27 PM #34
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