People who get steroid injections to ease back pain do not need an MRI scan, which does little to help doctors assess and treat patients but adds significant costs, U.S. researchers said. Steroid ...

Leading UK health insurer Bupa is extending its network of MRI units by a third, to 352, giving customers access to even more state-of-the art, quality assessed scanners across the UK. The new network ...

Oct. 15 -- WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Having easy access to MRI scans may be a bad thing for people with new-onset lower back pain, according to U.S. researchers. The analysis of 1998 ...

Radiographs as Good as MRI for Most Patients With Low Back Pain - Medscape - Jun 03, 2003. Authors and Disclosures. Authors and Disclosures Author(s) Laurie Barclay, MD.

The TODAY co-host shared how a different type of MRI procedure helped him overcome his anxiety about having the test and led to a breakthrough procedure for his back pain. June 13, 2022, 10:37 AM ...

Most people believe that imaging provides the best way to determine the source of back pain. That may not be the case. ... Take, for example, the finding of a disc herniation on MRI.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There was disturbing news Friday, about the accuracy of MRI scans for back pain. A new study says the commonly prescribed exams and the doctors reading them may be getting ...

And yet, between 1995 and 2015, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other high-tech scans for low back pain increased by 50 percent, according to a new systematic review published in the British ...