Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more. MRI is ...

Nearly all the patients with low back pain referred by their general practitioner for a lumbar magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI) had abnormal findings on the imaging, with seven in 10 showing ...

Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published today in Radiology , a journal of the Radiological Society of North ...

EMG can differentiate spinal stenosis from neuromuscular diseases and help avoid unnecessary surgery for patients with low back pain. (Haig AJ et al. 2005; 30:2667-2676.) ...

About 60-85% of adults will experience lower back pain at some point in their lives, and 15-45% of people experience chronic lower back pain − pain that lasts longer than three months. Lumbar ...

Each patient was given an 8-minute MRI scan and a lumbar puncture and, after 18 months, they were able to find out what the diagnosis was and whether it matched that of their initial scan.

MRIs and lumbar punctures may not provide enough therapeutic value to be standard-of-care diagnostic tests in patients suffering neurologic symptoms following chimeric antigen receptor T-cell ...

Researchers conducted 3 separate studies examining the data of patients who presented with leg or back pain and were candidates for spinal intervention: a physician survey (n=2960), a ...