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Old 11-28-2010, 01:21 PM
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Let's see if I can help

In the cervical spine, your C2-3 space is normal

At Cs3-4 there is a disc bulge, but doesn't seem to be causing any trouble.

At T1-2 things are fine

Your soft tissues are fine, you do have mild bone spurs but nothing drastic.

Your spine is straight.

You have multi-level bone spurs, most apparent at C5-6

Lumbar, you have mild bulging at L1-2

At L2-3 & L3-4 no disc bulges

L4-5 you have disc drying out & mild bulging; the ligamentum flavum is yellow elastic tissue - it buckling. The neural foramen is the hole where the nerves pass thru to the spinal cord - that's fine.

L5-6 You lost some disc space height cause the disc is drying out. You have a disc bulge. and an annular tear - that's the fluid filled sac that the disc sits in. The mild facet arthrosis is a degenerative joint problem and it's getting in the way of the neural foramen (the hole that the nerves pass thru).

You have no masses in the spine.

I hope this makes sense to you. If you have questions, let me know. God bless. Hugs, Lee
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