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I have a short neck according to a ct scan, it does not say by how much. I was just wondering because I have never heard of anything being short may causing issues. Would a short neck cause disc bulging? I drove a forklift for many year and now I have bad neck issues, including a very large herniated disc. Now when WSIB investigates, will they fight me on the shorter neck issue?
Thank you

This is a part of the CT Scan Report

There are image degradation artifacts at C6-C7 and C7-T1 due to the patient's short neck therefore assessment is not optimal in these regions

Our spinal forum might be of more help on this, I'll move your thread there.

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Originally Posted by Checker (Post 915403)

There are image degradation artifacts at C6-C7 and C7-T1 due to the patient's short neck therefore assessment is not optimal in these regions

It sounds like there isn't clear imaging for those areas.

Anything else in the report about disks or other vertebrae levels?

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Originally Posted by Checker (Post 915403)

There are image degradation artifacts at C6-C7 and C7-T1 due to the patient's short neck therefore assessment is not optimal in these regions

Checker,

A "short neck" is not a predisposing factor that I know of for cervical HNP. Transmitted vibration from driving heavy equipment certainly is for lumbar HNP...probably is too for the neck!

Why did they do a CT and not an MRI....HMO decision?

I complained of neck and shoulder pain since 2002.My GP ordered the ct scan
and recently i had the mri.The neurosurgeon told me my neck was not short according
to the mri. I say driving the forklift 8 years prior to 2002 was the cause of my herniatedd
disc.It is now large and I require surgery as I was unaware of the ct scan resuts to
begin with.My GP is one of those no call is good news.I wonder how bad a disc herniation has to be to be considered a call to inform a patient?

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Originally Posted by Checker (Post 917639)

In all likelihood, driving a forklift for 8 years was possibly a contributory factor for the disc herniation. Makes sense to me! As far as informing a patient of MRI findings, I think the prudent thing to have done was to explain why the MRI was necessary in the first place, what symptoms and clinical findings led to ording the study and then upon completion, relating the findings (or non-findings) to whether or not they correlate to you complaints and clinical discoveries.

I just wonder why a CT was ever ordered in the first place as it is old technology for a disc problem and is now reserved more for deliniating bony lesions or other non-soft tissue issues. But there are other reasons, though. Curious...