Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more.

Hawaii had the lowest rate of lumbar spine MRIs performed for lower back pain between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data released Feb. 19.  CMS measures the percentage of lumbar ...

Columnist Leigh Anne Nelson, usually described as calm, acknowledges a little anxiety about getting her next MRI.

Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North ...

The repetitive loading of cricket fast bowling may cause bone marrow oedema (BMO), detectable on MRI, before the bowler suffers from symptomatic bone stress injury. We investigated the temporal ...