Hiroaki Nakashima, MD, of Nagoya, Japan, said the rate of abnormal MRI findings in the cervical spinal increases greatly with age and warned of the dangers of predictive operative decisions based ...

Your neck is one of the most mobile parts of your spine and has to support your head, so it's a common place for foraminal narrowing to occur. Thoracic foraminal stenosis.

A certain degree of kyphosis is normally present at the thoracic and sacral spinal segments. If the curve of a person's thoracic spine exceeds 40 to 45 degrees, it is considered abnormal.

Herniated T9-10 Disk: Sagittal MRI scan of the thoracic spine; (Left) T1-weighted with gadolinium; (Right) T2-weighted. Note the large disk herniation between the T9 and T10 vertebral bodies, ...

Over 60% of us will suffer from lower back pain at some point in our lives. Without question, it's the leading cause of ...

It must be emphasized that the true incidence of spinal angiolipomas could be greater than generally believed and MRI will likely increase the opportunities for detecting these lesions.

Males were more likely to show radiographic progression of both sacroiliitis and spinal disease on both X-ray and MRI. Women were more likely to have cervical and thoracic lesions on MRI.

Objective In this study, the prevalence of abnormalities in the cervical spine of asymptomatic professional rugby players using both static and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in order to ...