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Originally Posted by annapurna
Ten years ago, at a spine conference in the US, Zeeger's threw up a slide with an MRI showing two clearly dessicated and collapsed disks and asked the audience which was the pain generator. Then, when everyone had pointed to one of the two obviously damaged disks, explained that the pain was from the torn and leaking but radiographically sound disk above those two. Can't trust imaging to tell the whole story.
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I guess you are correct. Maybe they removed the bulge from L4L5 in the case I mentioned. It wouldn't show on the x-ray.
I can imagine the surprise of the audience at that conference
I wonder if Zeegers makes speeches at conferences nowadays. I guess he has really seen it all!