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Old 07-08-2012, 04:03 PM #13
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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.
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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