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.

Her right lower extremity exhibited positive straight leg testing at 45 degrees. A review of her MRI scan revealed a large herniated disc at the L5-S1 level on the right, compressing the right S1 ...

Herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), also referred to as a herniated disc, is a common spine pathology that occurs ... patients with large midline lumbar HNPs may suffer significant neurological ...

There was widespread concern within the government as well as patients and their families, particularly around the use of unapproved, non-CE-certified springs in three patients requiring spinal ...

MS is a condition where the immune system attacks the brain and spinal ... limited MRI data and single types of scans that aren’t usually used for this purpose—such as T2-weighted MRI without ...

Lacy discovered people had been experimenting with preventive, radiation-free, full-body MRI scans ... auto-immune disorders and brain aneurysms, spinal degeneration and non-cancerous conditions ...

A 63-year-old man presented with right-sided hemianopia and unsteady gait. Brain MRI revealed multiple hyperintense infarct-like lesions on diffusion-weighted images (DWI). Hyperintensity persisted in ...

Spinal stenosis exercise programs should be focused on improving spinal flexibility, strengthening the muscles of the trunk and lower extremities, and general overall conditioning to improve spinal ...

Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

1 2 Quantitative spinal cord (SC) imaging provides a unique opportunity ... Cervical cord data were acquired from C2 to C7 on a 3T MRI system (Siemens TIM Trio). A T2-weighted three-dimensional turbo ...