Cheung and co-investigator Jaro Karpinnen, MD, of Oulu, Finland, read each subject’s sagittal whole-spine MRI. The physicians graded the severity of degeneration from 0 to 3 at each lumbar level ...

Did these spine and pain doc just crack the code for diagnosing discogenic pain? At the very least, they have brought order ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — As asymptomatic individuals aged, their rate of cervical spine abnormalities increased, according study results presented at the Cervical Spine Research Society Annual Meeting, here.

Response to therapy was measured by MRI of the upper sagittal spine at the beginning of the study and again at the end of the study (after 24 weeks of treatment). MRI was performed using 1.0 T or ...

Sagittal view (static MRI) of the cervical spine of a 31-yearold rugby player with a disc hernia (arrow) at the C6/C7 level. Static and dynamic MRI (2004–2005 and 2005–2006 seasons) For the 2004–2005 ...

Once the cryoprobe is in position, the team employ MRI to monitor growth of the cryoablation zone using standard axial and sagittal T2-weighted MR images. These can be acquired as rapidly as every 0.5 ...

Sagittal STIR image from whole-spine MRI demonstrates edema in nuchal ligament consistent with ligamentous injury (arrow) and epidural hematoma extending along thoracic spine (arrowhead ...