... rc,do you remeber if you just laid on a table and they took the x rays, or were you standing up in front of a 'boardlike" thing and asked to move your neck forwards and backwards? ... (16 replies)
... plate, etc. Everything has been going fairly well until recently when I started feeling a lot of popping in my neck. I can also hear grinding noise when I turn my head. ... (5 replies)
... Thanks for answering Marcia. This stinks! I just think it's weird that I went for about 7 months without the popping and all of a sudden it started. Did your "noises" go away after the second surgery? ... (5 replies)
... honestly precious, and to anyone else who's surgeons actually allow you to even wear one of those "soft collars", esp during that very highly critical 6 week post op period, burn em. ... (7 replies)
... did they EVER actually check your c spine with a good flexion and sxtention type of x ray just to see for CERTAIN that both endplates of the "fusion' area actually DID fuse? ... (5 replies)
... mine didn't take either.after my last surgery, my NS said that when he went in there, he could see that it had finally fused.my non fusion was causing all kinds of new symptoms to occur that i had never had before as that little bone was moving and finding all kinds of new and fun places to hang out. ... (9 replies)
... Yes, I had to extend and flex my neck sideways and front and also open my mouth and do one 'regular'. I think it's 6 views. ... (4 replies)
... neck forwards,then backwards just to see how the boney prominences on the very back of your vertebraes actually "fan out"? ... (16 replies)
... There is a grade 1 anterolisthesis of c2 on c3 which increases to grade 2 anterolisthesis in flexion. ... (3 replies)
... nurse to finally get them to actually take me sriously,then only after a simple flex and ext x ray,imagine that? ... (5 replies)
... hey teri, it would appear that the above x ray results WERE done by flex and ext x ray. ... (8 replies)
... have you actually had whats called a flexion and extension type x ray done on your c spine to really see whether or not you have fused at all? ... (7 replies)
... done with no hardware. despite the fact i could feel things kind of grinding and knew things were moving just based upon intermittant numbness and tingling and pain that would just pop in and out on me, my NS told me i was fused. ... (3 replies)
... a copy of your MRI CD too? ... (19 replies)
... I knew that my neck hadn't fused after my surgery as it was causing the same symptoms as you are having plus,i could hear this horrid crunching or scraping sound? ... (10 replies)
... bone kind of sound and when I mentioned this to my NS at my six week, he said that it was the bone graft still scraping a little against the vertebrae end as my neck had not yet started to fuse real well yet.So he sent me home with instructions to wear the collar for another two weeks and then I could go with out it. ... (5 replies)
... fe, and not to 'try' ANYMORE PT which in YOUR case, i just seriously cannot see what she hopes to actually "gain" here for you at all with simply what your level of injuries just are at all right now? ... (75 replies)
... in YOUR particular type of situation tim, that would be more 'normal'? ... (16 replies)
... c spine level. what an ass of a 'specialist" to NOT even take that type of what IS a pretty impactful injury into acct and need to scan to tule your symptoms in or out, period. ... (38 replies)
... okay, i have been doing alot searching here. in many various ways for the possible casues of the myelo and the atrophy? ... (19 replies)
