Cymraeg
- Support further management options, if your assessment identifies a specific concern
- Take a detailed picture of a body part or area of the body
- Provide a safe method to investigate with minimal risks
- Provide a diagnosis on their own – A clinical assessment is always needed before a MRI scan
- Show pain or be requested for pain alone, despite how bad it feels or how long it has been there
- Speed up the healing or recovery time of MSK conditions
Structural Change does not always cause pain…
In over 3000 people without back pain, an MRI scan showed up to 97% as having some level of structural change to their spine including disc bulges, disc degeneration and spinal arthritis (1)
In over 230 people with pain free knees, up to 97% showed abnormal structural changes, including arthritis, cartilage tears and Baker’s Cysts (2)
In 123 people with pain free shoulders, up to 88% showed abnormal tendon changes and 89% showed age related changes including arthritis (3)
1 – Brinjikji, et al. (2015). “Systematic literature review of imaging features of spinal degeneration in asymptomatic populations”. American journal of neuroradiology, 36(4), pp.811-816.
2 – Galim, et al. (2006). “Accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging of the knee and unjustified surgery”. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®, 447, pp.100-104.
3 – Sansone, V., et al. (2016). “Calcific tendinopathy of the rotator cuff: the correlation between pain and imaging features in symptomatic and asymptomatic female shoulders”. Skeletal radiology, 45, pp.49-55.
