Quick recap then I'll get off my evil people soapbox. At the clinic, where I was required to take PT to see my neurosurgeon, they ordered a MRI and found a rupture. My whiplash was from a car wreck in 1995 and I had no symptoms. My PT put me in a MedX lumbar strengthening machine with full force on my upper body for 8 weeks until I quit from the overwhelming pain. Besides a ruptured eardrum, 2 cracked molars and a torn rotator cuff, these are before and after MRI's.

MRI 12/2/2014

large midline and right-sided disc herniation at C5-6 with migration of disc material caudally behind the C6 vertebral body.
Mild effacement of the right side of the spinal cord, mild narrowing of neural exit foramen on the right


MRI 4/15/2015

C3-4 slight disk bulge
C4-5 slight disc bulge

C5-6 A posterior central disc extrusion extends inferior behind the C6 vertebral body **** Is this also new damage? Inferior?
Disc herniation results in moderate to severe central canal stenosis and flattening of the spinal cord.
There is mild bilateral neural foraminal narrowing


This damage occurred over EIGHT physical therapy sessions. I quit a month early