Background: There are patients with limiting low back pain (LBP) with or without radicular
pain in whom conventional supine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) show no causative …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lumbar spine is one of the most frequently
requested MRI examinations, and the excellent quality images obtained with modern …

Current guidelines advise against the use of routine imaging for low back pain. Positional
MRI can provide enhanced assessment of the lumbar spine in functionally loaded positions …

Supine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is routinely used in the assessment of low back
pain and radiculopathy. However, imaging findings often correlate poorly with clinical …

Background: Lumbar back pain and radiculopathy are common diagnoses. Unfortunately,
conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and clinical symptoms do not …

Background Patients with low back pain frequently demonstrate recumbent magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) alterations not always related to homogeneous clinical symptoms …

PURPOSE: To evaluate whether positional magnetic resonance (MR) images of the lumbar
spine demonstrate nerve root compromise not visible on MR images obtained with the …

Objective To test the reliability and absolute agreement of common degenerative findings in
standing positional magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI). Methods and materials Low back …

OBJECTIVE: Cases of chronic noncancer pain are both the most frequent and the most
difficult that the spine care professional is called upon to treat. We use this case to illustrate …

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the general principles of lumbar
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), including signal generation and image interpretation …