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Old 09-04-2021, 07:49 AM
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You don't have much going on, really, in this CT scan--most of the findings here are mild and likely don't correlate well with your symptoms. Mostly, the report points to loss of disc height, a very common finding with age, as are the bone spurs (uncinate hypertrophy) and calcification of some disc regions (osteophytes). However, there seems to be no evidence of frank spinal cord compression or of pressure on the nerve roots that join the cord (the foramen are the "holes" through which those roots pass, and there is some narrowing, but no direct evidence of root compression).

This is not a report that would be out of place for anyone middle aged or beyond (though you don't tell us how old you are )

I would think, though, that an MRI might give a better imaging of the soft tissues and whether there is some compression that the CT scan might not be specific enough to pick up.
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