[knowledge hungry]

Need this explained so I can understand. After I heard the words, "You have severe damage", almost everything else was a blur. I am female, 5 ft tall, 120 pounds, and almost 60. I have been doing heavy lifting at work for 3 years, with lots of repetitive motions and reaching up over my head all day. I have filed a workers comp claim-has not yet been approved. Doc is talking about going through the front of my neck to fix if pain and numbness in arm does not subside. Hard to process all of this......




Occiput to T4 evaluated in the sagittal plane. Mild to moderate disc space narrowing at the c5-c6 level. The craniocervical junction, cervical thoracic junction are normal in appearance.

C2-C3 Normal
C3-C4 Normal

C4-C5 Diffuse disc bulge with a residual AP diameter of the central spinal canal of approx. 10 mm. Mild right foraminal stenosis.

C5-C6 Diffuse disc bulge central disc protrusion with effacement of the anterior aspect of the cord and residual AP diameter of the canal of 7 mm. Uncinate process hypertrophy with severe right foraminal stenosis.

C6-C7 Diffuse disc bulge with an AP diameter of the canal of 8-9 mm. Uncinate process hypertrophy with significant right foraminal stenosis.

C7-T1 Normal

There are no paraspinal masses identified. The vertebral bodies and disc spaces are otherwise normal.

Impression



1. Discogenic disease at C5-C6 and C6-C7 with a residual AP diameter of the central spinal canal 7 mm and 8-9 mm respectively.

2. Severe right foraminal stenosis C5-C6 and moderate to severe right foraminal stenosis C6-C7 due to discogenic disease in uncinate process hypertrophy.

3. Mild effaccement of the anterior aspect of the cervical cord at C5-C6.