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good CT interpretations...for 'absolute' results, any neurosurgeon will still want an MRI...much higher definition of nerve compression. It's like the CT is a black and white and the MRI is technicolor.
A epidural steroid injection (ESI) may reduce the symptoms and relieve the inflammation/edema of the disc and surrounding nerve roots. Some discs will migrate back to their proper location (mine did), but the ESI, is no guarantee of this. Also, before jumping and doind other activities that will cause an axial load you would want the opinion of either an orthopedic spine specialist or neurosurgeon. No offense to any other doc but the buck stops there, not with any one else when it comes to spinal trauma.
just my unofficial 2 cents.
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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