Cervical Spine Results
 

My symptoms started 6 weeks ago. Thought I had structural problem in shoulder: rotator cuff, muscle or tendon but realizd over time that I had tingling down my arm to the back of my hand. When I raise my arm to throwing position I get a lot of pain in the shoulder and down my right arm. I notice much milder symptoms inside my left forearm (yes, inside, feels like its between the bones).

So now it has settled to a constant aching pain in my right arm. Constant tingling and numbness in back of right hand. I can make my arm hurt anytime I want. I have had some numbness and tingling along right jaw line and down neck, but that was only for one day.

Side note, and may not matter, I have always had a lot of muscle tightness between shoulder blades and upwards, thats where I carry my tension.

Please let me know what you think!


Findings:
The cervical Lordosis is maintained. The vertebral body heights are with in normal limits. The disc spaces demonstrate minimal multilevel narrowing. no significant subluxation is seen. The marrow signal is unremarkable. The cord signal appears homogeneous.

C2-C3: Negative.

C3-C4: There is a minimal disc bulge osteophyte complex causing severe bilateral neural foraminal narrowing.

C4-C5: There is a minimal disc bulge osteophyte complex causing severe bilateral neural foraminal narrowing.

C5-C6: There is a minimal disc bulge osteophyte complex causing moderate LEFT and severe RIGHT neural foraminal narrowing.

C6-C7: There is mild-to-moderate disc bulge osteophyte complex slightly eccentric to the LEFT causing moderate central canal stenosis and severe bilateral neural foraminal narrowing.

C7-T1: Negative.

IMPRESSION:
1. There is a mild-to-moderate disc bulge osteophyte complex slightly eccentric to the LEFT causing moderate central canal stenosis and severe bilateral neural foraminal narrowing at C6-C7. Other levels as described above.

I don't think I've seen an MRI report that had so many levels with "minimal" disc/osteophyte complex causing bilateral "severe" foraminal stenosis, at least in quite awhile. With your diffuse arm symptoms and busy MRI, I would think someone would want to hook you up and get EMG/NCV to differentiate?

If the dr finds none as a real cause of your pain , you might read about thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) for short..
Often related to chronic repetitive activities or desk job.postures...previous whiplash/sports/accidents.. and other factors..
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread84.html

could be a little of both c spine & some sort of TOS or soft tissue problems..

I'm literally 2 days away from receiving MRI results and haven't met the specialist yet. So really just getting my feet wet and seeing what I may be in for : )