Hi, I am needing some help interpreting an MRI I had on my C-spine. For a few years I've had numbness and pain down my right leg and in my neck, right shoulder, hands, etc. I have a lot of problems and I'm hoping this MRI explains them all. I am only 27 and this all happened right after I had my son who is now almost 4. I also had a brain MRI to check for MS, but it came back normal.



Normal signal is seen in the posterior fossa an cervical spinal cord. Loss of normal cervical lordosis is noted. Normal signal is seen in the bony cervical spine.

At c3/4, broad-based disc bulge is seen causing mild central stenosis and mild neural foraminal narrowing bilaterally.


At c4/5, broad-based disc bulge works with uncinate hypertrophy to cause moderate central stenosis and mild neural foraminal narrowing bilaterally.


At c5/6, patient has an eccentric to the right disc bulge which causes moderate central stenosis and mild bilateral neural formainal narrowing.


At c6/7, minimal disc bulging is seen but no significant central stenosis or neural foraminal narrowing is appreciated.


Impression: Multilevel degenerative disc and degenerative joint disease is seen especially at c4/5 and c5/6 as described above.