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Originally Posted by Voorhees
I have spinal stenosis. I was Diagnosed with it last year. I hurt my neck and went to the ER. They did a cat scan and it showed i was fine. About a week later i was getting tingling and burning sensations down my left arm and such. So i went to urgent care and the doc there order an emergency MRI.
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This doesn't sound unusual. CT scans are better for imaging bone, while MRIs are better for imaging soft tissues. There's also a series of hoops that insurance companies require doctors (as well as patients) to jump through in specific orders due to cost. MRIs are many times the cost of a CT scan.
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