Is Anything On This MRI Concerning Or Surgical?

Posted on Thu, 4 Mar 2021

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Question : Trying to get insight into MRI- findings: C5/6 mild osteopathic ridging flattens ventral margin of thecal sac. c6/7 prominent ridge of osteophytes with disc osteophyte complex flattening ventral margin of thecal sac. Mild bony neural foraminal stenosis. Overall impression: c5/6, c6/7 moderate spondyolotic changes. Does this mean there is stenosis? Symptoms are neck pain occasional achy pain into shoulders, no numbness or tingling into extremities, no weakness. Also get sharp pain in neck and some head/neck “jerking” in certain positions at night when I lay down. Is anything on this mri concerning or surgical?

Answered by Dr. Aashish Raghu (3 hours later)

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Hi there

Thanks for the query

According to the report it just mentions that there is arthritis of the spine and there is extremely less compression of the spinal canal but no evidence of stenosis is mentioned in the report provided.

The symptoms you have appear like part of symptoms due to arthritis due to improper posture and not surgically concerning. You will benefit from TENS therapy by Physiotherapy.

I hope I have answered your query.

I will be available to answer your follow up queries.

Regards,

Aashish Raghu.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Nagamani Ng

Follow up: Dr. Aashish Raghu (6 hours later)

can you explain what you mean by %E2%80%9Cextremely less compression of the spinal canal%E2%80%9D? also can you explain the thecal sac involvement a little more, this is not indicative of anything to do with the spinal cord right?

Answered by Dr. Aashish Raghu (2 hours later)

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There is compression of the bag (thecal sac) that holds the nerves but not the nerves that lie within this bag.

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