Cervical MRI. False Negative?

[tyler019]

I see a pain management specialist and he states that this is the Facet Joint Syndrome and that there is simply no cure for it. Also the pain I feel starts in my neck by the top of my skull radiates down to about t5 and goes out to my shoulders and some tops the top of my arms. I have felt it all the way down my arm. For the most part it hurts all the time. There are times when it is worse such as days i do alot of errands, or sitting for an extended period of time.

[mmglobal]

The problem is that not all problems show on MRI. You can have a relatively benign looking MRI and still have severe pain. The converse of that, makes the doctors tend to ignore the people with the relatively good looking films. (The converse being the people who have terrible looking films that have little or no pain.)

Good luck,

Mark