Re: Please help-ONLY 25 YEARS OLD!

[Guest guest]

Positioning is important in MRIs. They can take horizontal slices, or angle

slices, vertical slices (at any angle of the clock) -- they may not take all of

these, depending on what's ordered.

Also I've noticed, despite " vast improvements " in MRI technology over the last

20 years, the films are much harder to read now. I had a head MRI in the '80s

and all the tissues were clear as day. In the mid-'90s I had one done of my

spine (looking for soft tissue abnormalities). Clear as day. Recent knee MRIs

and spine MRIs have been blurry, muddy.

Ann

Re: Re: Please help-ONLY 25 YEARS OLD!

I've never had an MRI myself so I'm not completely

sure how positioning affects them (I don't think it

does), but I know that exact positioning is very

important with xrays. If your original x-rays don't

show anything that you should have a new set taken as

part of your second opinion. The original xray tech

may not have done the first ones right. You know,

just like when you take pictures with a camera, you

can end up with some bad ones. Xrays are the same.

Xrays are also not very expensive.

[Guest guest]

Re: Re: Please help-ONLY 25 YEARS

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> > Osteo is progressive, but so can CP be once it hits a certain point.

In

> general most docs list CP as osteo because it is accepted better by the

> insurance company. If you look at the codes on your slip the next time

you

> see a an ortho you'll see no listings for CP, so they either list it

under

> osteo or patella-femoral pain syndrome.

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> CP and patella-femoral pain syndrome are one and the same.

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> Mike

> MT

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[Guest guest]

About the MRI's, I think it has to

do with if they use the open type MRI, or

the closed (tube) like MRI's machines.

From a scientific standpoint the closed machines

give a better picture.

From a scared of tiny enclosed spaces, I'm not

getting into the little tube and listen to scarey

pounding noises. An open MRI device is better

than no MRI taken.

May also have to do with when they calibrated the machine,

or the age of the machine.

Connie

> Positioning is important in MRIs. They can take horizontal

slices, or angle slices, vertical slices (at any angle of the

clock) -- they may not take all of these, depending on what's

ordered.

>

> Also I've noticed, despite " vast improvements " in MRI technology

over the last 20 years, the films are much harder to read now. I

had a head MRI in the '80s and all the tissues were clear as day.

In the mid-'90s I had one done of my spine (looking for soft tissue

abnormalities). Clear as day. Recent knee MRIs and spine MRIs have

been blurry, muddy.

>

> Ann

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[Guest guest]

I've always used the whole body machine (if you close your eyes and it's a newer

machine with an air flow, it's not as claustrophobic. They give you earplugs

now, and I usually sort of drift off). Even so, the last few MRIs have been what

I call lousey.

Ann

Re: Please help-ONLY 25 YEARS OLD!

About the MRI's, I think it has to

do with if they use the open type MRI, or

the closed (tube) like MRI's machines.

From a scientific standpoint the closed machines

give a better picture.

From a scared of tiny enclosed spaces, I'm not

getting into the little tube and listen to scarey

pounding noises. An open MRI device is better

than no MRI taken.

May also have to do with when they calibrated the machine,

or the age of the machine.

Connie

> Positioning is important in MRIs. They can take horizontal

slices, or angle slices, vertical slices (at any angle of the

clock) -- they may not take all of these, depending on what's

ordered.

>

> Also I've noticed, despite " vast improvements " in MRI technology

over the last 20 years, the films are much harder to read now. I

had a head MRI in the '80s and all the tissues were clear as day.

In the mid-'90s I had one done of my spine (looking for soft tissue

abnormalities). Clear as day. Recent knee MRIs and spine MRIs have

been blurry, muddy.

>

> Ann

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[Guest guest]

I guess as much as anything, I am trying to point out how confusing the

whole concept can be of the 100+ inflammatory joint diseases that are called

arthritis.

Mike

MT

Re: Re: Please help-ONLY 25 YEARS OLD!

> First you try to differentiate between osteoarthritis

> and " true " arthritis. Now you seem to be doing the

> reverse and say that it's all the same thing. Yes,

> the general term " arthritis " means joint inflammation

> (arthr= joint, itis= inflammation). When you create a

> compound word like osteoarthritis, the meaning can

> change somewhat.

>

> If you read the full article, it only references

> rheumatoid arthritis as being inflammatory. It falls

> short of saying that osteoarthritis is inflammatory.

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> And, as with the other articles you cited, it doesn't

> make any connection between arthritis and CP, nor does

> it say that CP is inflammatory.

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