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. MRI is ...

An MRI scan uses magnets and radio waves to capture images inside your body without making a surgical incision. The scan allows your doctor to see the soft tissue of your body, like muscles and ...

Lumbar Compression Fracture: (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI of the lumbar spine; (Right) T2-weighted MRI of the lumbar spine. Note the compression fracture of the L2 vertebral body. Vertebral ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Use of oblique fast spin-echo T1 MRI sequencing improves consistency in the diagnosis of lumbar foraminal stenosis in patients with radiculopathy, according to a speaker here ...

A lumbar MRI showed multilevel degenerative disk changes, Schmorl’s nodes with T2 hyperintensity that were suspected to be reactive changes at L1–L5, and disk desiccation at all vertebral ...

Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North ...

While natural aging is a cause of the degeneration that occurs in the spine causing lumbar spondylosis, damage also can be caused by repetitive motions that put extra stress on the lower back.

Researchers in China reviewed lumbar spine MRI results of 400 patients reporting chronic back pain from 2007 to 2011, including 192 patients diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis (AS; mean age, 28 ...

Nearly all the patients with low back pain referred by their general practitioner for a lumbar magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI) had abnormal findings on the imaging, with seven in 10 showing ...

Patients at Mass General complete a short symptom questionnaire prior to their lumbar spine MRI. They answer questions about the severity of their pain, where it is located, what makes it worse ...