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Back Pain With a Fever: Spinal Infection and Why It Is Often Diagnosed Late
Most back pain is not serious, but back pain with a fever can be a sign of a rare spinal...
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Eight Months of Heel Pain: A Calcaneal Fracture Found on MRI, and Why We Diagnose First
Eight months of heel pain treated with physiotherapy, then an MRI found a fracture of the heel bone. How calcaneal...
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Shoulder Pain Not Getting Better With Physio? When You Need an MRI
Months of physiotherapy for shoulder pain, then an MRI showed the problem was inside the bone. Why some shoulder problems...
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Sacral Insufficiency Fracture: A Hidden Cause of Back and Buttock Pain, and What It Says About Your Bones
Three months of back and buttock pain turned out to be a sacral insufficiency fracture. Why it is missed, and...
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Missed Periods in Athletes Are a Warning Sign: The Female Athlete Triad, REDs and Bone Health
Missed periods are not a normal part of hard training. The female athlete triad and REDs explained, with the warning...
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Gelatinous Bone Marrow Transformation in Anorexia Nervosa: What MRI Shows and Why It Matters
Severe undernutrition can change the bone marrow itself. What gelatinous marrow transformation (serous atrophy) is, how MRI shows it, why...
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Hip Pain That Won’t Settle: Stress Fractures of the Hip and Why MRI Matters
More than a month of hip pain treated with physiotherapy turned out to be a femoral neck stress fracture. The...
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Four Years of Shoulder Pain: Osteoarthritis and Avascular Necrosis of the Shoulder
Four years of shoulder pain treated with physiotherapy and steroid injections turned out to be osteoarthritis and avascular necrosis of...
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Spinal Metastases: Symptoms, Warning Signs and Why Early MRI Matters
Ongoing back pain treated as routine turned out to be widespread spinal metastases. Symptoms, spinal cord compression warning signs and...
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Can Back Pain Be a Sign of Cancer? A Case of Nine Months of Back Pain
Nine months of back pain treated as mechanical turned out to be cancer in the sacrum. The warning signs, why...
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Is a Cheap MRI Scan Worth It? What Really Decides MRI Quality
What really decides MRI quality: field strength, coils, slice thickness, protocol and who reports your scan, plus 10 questions to...
Read MoreMRI or Ultrasound: Which Scan Do You Need for Joint Pain?
MRI or ultrasound for joint pain? What each scan shows best, where X-ray fits in, when no scan is needed,...
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