GOTHENBURG, Sweden — A prospective long-term study that followed healthy school age children through maturity showed 59% of them had low back pain by the time they reached 18 to 19 years old ...

Unfortunately for patients looking for easily understandable health information, the authors found that all the lumbar spine MRI reports were written at a readability level significantly above the ...

Both articles, while informative, fail to address what I believe is the most significant driver of increased use of MRI for nonspecific low back pain and of hospitals’ adoption of the 64-slice ...

Unfortunately for patients looking for easily understandable health information, the authors found that all the lumbar spine MRI reports were written at a readability level significantly above the ...

Plain radiographs (X-ray), computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are commonly used in the evaluation of lower back pain. While MRI use has increased most over the past ...

When doctors own or lease MRI equipment, their patients are more likely to receive scans for low back pain. Patients of orthopedists are more apt to undergo back surgery as well, according to a ...

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 ...

On the other hand, one wonders about MRI, for the U.S. has 26 MRI machines per million population and keeps these units fairly busy, while the typical OECD country has 5-10 MRIs per million (OECD ...