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Blood Tests
15 March 2010
If your doctor orders blood tests for you, a laboratory technician will carefully draw a small amount of blood from a vein in your arm, which then will be tested in the laboratory. Blood tests that... Read more »

Bone Scan
11 July 2010
Bone scanning is extremely sensitive at detecting subtle stress fractures or bone tumours when they are invisible on plain x-rays. It is particularly helpful when it is unclear exactly where the problem is in the skeleton. It offers the ability to ta... Read more »

C.T. (Cat Scan, Computed Tomography)
23 August 2010
A C.T. scan combines many x-ray images with the aid of a computer to generate cross-sectional views or 'slices' of body tissues, bones and organs; and if needed, three-dimensional images of the internal organs and structures of the body can be comput... Read more »

Discogram
20 May 2010
Discography is a procedure used to determine if the intervertebral discs are the source of a patient's pain. The test is usually done for patients with chronic back or neck pain when diagnosis by X-ray, myelogram, CT or MRI alone has not been achieve... Read more »

Electromyogram (EMG)
30 August 2010
An electromyogram tests the functions of the nerve roots and the way that the nerves affect muscle function. It does this by looking at how well the electrical currents in the nerves are being transmitted to the muscles. Pressure on the nerves or dam... Read more »

Injections
3 October 2010
Spinal injections comprise another relatively conservative treatment option for chronic back pain. They are used both to learn more about what is causing your pain and to treat your pain. Doctors refer to these two separate uses of spinal injections... Read more »

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
20 September 2010
The MRI is one of the most advanced diagnostic imaging methods available today. It uses simple radio waves in conjunction with a very powerful magnet; then a computer uses this information to generate realistic pictures of various parts of the body... Read more »

Myelogram
19 May 2010
This test, in most instances, has now been replaced by MRI and is only used when there is a contra indication to MRI - such as a pacemaker. Myelograms are special X-ray studies of the spinal canal, spinal cord and nerve roots. They are use... Read more »

X-ray (Radiography, plain film)
20 June 2010
X-ray is the oldest and most frequently used form of medical imaging. For decades, diagnostic images have been created by passing small, highly controlled amounts of radiation through the human body, capturing the resulting shadows and reflections on... Read more »

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