Which is the Best Imaging Test for Thoracic Spine Pain and When Should You Get It?
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- 0:00 - Introduction
0:31 - Mid Back Pain or Thoracic Pain
3:16 - Best Imaging, Treatments & Potential Causes
6:25 - Like & Subscribe!
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This is Dr. Grant Cooper at Princeton Spine & Joint Center, in today's video I would like to address when you should get imaging studies for the mid-back and which imaging study is the best to get -- should you get an X-Ray, an MRI, a CAT scan or ultrasound?
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I am so glad I found your video. I am a 65 year old female. Before November2021 I had never had significant back pain but I had a terrible fall which started me on this painful journey. I have been through several orthopedic physicians. The MRI’s didn’t show anything other than a typical 65 year old back so at first my insurance wouldn’t cover anything. After nearly 3 years of fighting with them they finally agreed to shots but that very week I turned 65 and my state insurance dropped and my Medicare began so now I essentially have to start the process again. My quality of life is very low. I can work in my garden or home for about an hour then the terrible pain in the mid left region of my back begins and if I don’t sit or lie down it gets unbearable to the point of crying it’s so bad. Laying or sitting for about two hours will “calm it down.” None of the medicines they have prescribed have helped.. celebrex, gabapentin
I have a t11 compression fracture. My mid back is burning just standing up.
Bad disc at T7,8 and 9 radiating around the chest and into the xiphoid process causing EXTREME pain.5 years and every test under sun but an MRI on my spine
How are you doing now? What type of treatment did you end up getting? I have the same pain.
Push for a ct myelogram, my thoracic disc herniation had calcified before they finally found the cord and nerve compression
Really informative. Thank you
I've had back pain around my thoracic spine chronically for over a year now. I often feel it around my shoulder blades, up into my neck. and even right around the spine. I sit at a computer a lot for work but I go to the gym to lift every day which is where I initially got an injury a couple years ago. I was doing an incline bench press and on my last rep felt my back and neck tighten up really stiff and couldn't really move it. Recovery for this incident lasted about a week at which point I felt fine and was back to my normal lifting. A few months later I had the same injury swinging a tennis racket overhead. Same recovery. The third time I hurt myself doing a dumbell overhead press and this time the recovery was different. I could tell I had injured myself worse than before and it felt like something back there was wrong. Ever since then I've had the chronic pain and the PT and Chiropractor work hasn't helped much. Any ideas of how I can diagnose the real problem would be much appreciated! Thanks
High intensity pemf unit
An mri get an mri you'll know
Quick update. I fixed myself. Did the MRI and Xrays which both showed nothing wrong. Chiropractic and PT didn't help. This might sound hard to believe but it turns out it was all psychological. Check out Healing the Back by Dr Sarno.
Excellent concise information.
I get terrible stabbing pains in my thorasic area. Also buttocks, heavily left side. Shoulder isn’t bad. Cold weather and standing long, stress, all make it worse. The thorasic is stabbing pains. I have mild scoliosis. Moderate neck degeneration. Had an MRI. Costovertrbral brought up as possible. I don’t have chest pain. This started 25 yrs ago after a car accident. I’m 50 and just got a new MRI. I’m getting training to strengthen. Can get injections. But they helped little last time. I can’t handle working the jobs I have had because standing or sitting more than 30 months can just hurt so much. I’m in decent shape.
Very helpful video, Doc! I'm trying to chase down what to do about pain in the thoracic spine. The XRay led to the Doc diagnosing DISH. I've had a stiff mid-back for a long time, but is just started getting painful recently, and I'm a very active person with good posture habits. He explained how my insurance company will push back on the MRI without trying PT first for a while. In my case, I have a high deductible insurance plan and I can pay for an MRI myself for $560. Life is short, I'm 60 and I want my Dr and I to both have all of the data needed to attack this problem correctly, which is why I'm getting the MRI done on my nickel in just a few days. I realize that I probably have DISH, but the MRI might also point out something else that is amplifying the pain. I figure in this case, you can't have too much data!
Praying that all is well if not better at least and that you got the test results that you so desperately needed. I just found out yesterday that I have Thoracic Arthritis. Luckily, my insurance nurse called me and will be calling me today so I'm going to ask her if they will help cover the cost for an MRI because I had the x-ray done for the diagnosis so I got that out of the way. I work at a warehouse lifting 10 lb weight scales and I lift between 4 to 8 at a time thinking I'm getting paid to workout. 😉😁 I thought my chronic chest pain was from heartache after losing my two 44 year old siblings within 9 months of each other. Now I know it's the Thoracic Arthritis. 🥹💔🙏🙏🙏
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What if the young adult had other spinal issues as well? Such as cervical kyphosis with loss of lordosis, with a few bulging dics. Scoliosis at the thoracic level (around the area of pain), with noted straightening of the lumbar spine.
Great talk - too bad most insurance companies run the show tho.
Soooo true!
I have neck, shoulder blade burning pain and my rib feels like they are locking on my right side. I have been diagnosed with slight bulging disc. I'm in so much pain.
Can any of this cause the back to feel cold a lot and randomly between shoulder blades and mid back. Thanks
I've had pain in my spine between my shoulder blades for years. Recently, I had a brain and cervical mri ordered by my neurologist and the Dr who read it said I have a bulging disk at t2 level. Would this cause my left arm and leg weakness? I have a weak left ankle and spacitity in that leg. My hip on the left side is bigger than my right, and I have lymphedema in my left thigh, too. Thank you for your response.
Thorax spine, kyfose, scoliosis, stenosis, scheuermann lambasted, al facet or almost gone, 4 vertebra compleet gone, stenose th 10, thorax spine th 12, 7 hernias and one made sinal cord injury th9, I’m know in wheelchair for just 3 months, walking is over, maybe 40 meters with stick…. And the pain not human anymore 😞 I’m 46 years young ..
but how did it all happen to you?
@@darioberki4569 all happend by the lumber scheuerermann (child disease) I never know that I have it, and when I was 10 years old I started to workout in garage of my father and 13 year old I go working 3 paperboy jobs big area every day, with 15 I do stil thap paper work but I worked in iron fabric, I don’t sleep a lot, and was heavy jobs and scole (32 km a day on the bicycle) with 17 I stopped scole and moth later with the papers, and going into the transport to work and stil in the iron fabric, I had a accident half year later with my hand in a machine, my left hand missed 3 fingers now after 18 operations, and soon I worked again busy with my papers for on a lorry, and (stil workout much to heavy) when I had al the papers on the way truck driving, always with lots of heavy load stuff, so as young man lots of sitting and way to much lifting in work and in the gym … years and years later I was 38 I Ben quit with the lorry, walking hurt, sits hurt etc, on that moment after mri, scheueremann lumbar, and L5 gone, and they told me it wil be not better but you have to learn with the pain, so I quit al heavy jobs.. I learned for nutrition and diets, I’m go to work in a gym, instructeur and nutritionist, and compete bodybuilding… early this year I was walking the stairs and upstairs I walked away and felt on the ground, no more feeling in my legs next day mri, and I had a nerve pain everything what I say here for and whiteout injury T 9, but I lived in a apartment with 2 stairs, I was a prisoner in my own home, 7 times I felt from the stairs, so the second time by the neurologist mri again, I can’t pee sitting again and poop was a problem can’t lift my left leg no more and spikes under my feed, and many spots on my left leg I don’t felt it anymore (tests neurological), walking without stick no possible anymore and i falling more and more and pain is not to do anymore, nerve pain more and more, left feed where spastic by lean on it, a have to wait 3 weeks for talk with neurologist again, 2 days laters she calls to come over to tell incomplete spine injury, (sorry for my English writing) operation is to much complex and change on a complete spine injury was / is to big, and my pain wil be never gone operation can make it worse, so operation is not a option for me now… little my story of life, and yes year before the police with a demonstration takes me with 7 man with sticks and iron pins out the demonstration, and hit me everywhere and lots on my back ( and no I’m not a hooligan I was with my parent from 70) was a peaceful organised demonstration, agains the rules of corona, and I know almost for sure that makes it not better for sure.. (but I was punished for 🤷♂️ my opinion agains the government I think) …
Will it never be fixed from a surgery
Hi Doc. I have an haemangioma in the T7 and T12 vertebral body. Will this cause pain in my thoracic region. Kindly reply.
Me too did you get help? It’s agonzing @nadpillay6219
Would you be opposed to testing out a THOREX roller for this pain?