Discogram

[str8shooter5]

hello, sorry i took so long to respond but we had an ice storm and lost power for 5 days BRRRR!
im 37 yrs old work a city on the water dept one day i was stretching over the front bucket of our backhoe to pick up the road closed sign (about 30lbs) when i picked it up and turned something i did every day i felt a bad burn in the lower back thought i pulled a muscle so i kept working for 3 weeks after and finally it got to bad to get out of bed and thats when i finally saw my Dr. who put me out of work and sent me to PT which at first helped a little but you all know how comp works.....LOL they stopped that after a number of visits so after that i wanted to have a MRI to find out what was going on thats when i was told i have 2 herniated disc and 1 has a rip in it...
So anyway i have an appointment with the surgen next week to get answers about the discogram and find out where we go from here..

[mmglobal]

I've been trying to think of what the + and -ul notations are. Positive and negative are obvious. They are looking for pain, concordant pain, hard endpoint (high pressure, unable to continue injecting contrast), opening pressure, pain pressure, ending pressure, volume of contrasted injected... maybe some things I'm forgetting now.

I look forward to learning what those notations are! When is your appt?

Mark

[str8shooter5]

i will find out what they mean this Monday weather permitting