Originally Posted By: cemc
Where I used to live about 20 years ago, physios wouldn't touch you with neck problems unless they could see an xray, whereas the protocol here now is that GPs don't do xrays routinely and will happily send you off to physio for all kinds of spine pain. Years ago I went to a chiropractor, and he also wouldn't do anything until he had seen xrays. I think you are totally right Pea, and that they shouldn't be recommending any physical treatments including exercise unless they know what is going on under the skin, and for a whole lot of reasons it makes a lot of sense to do full spine MRIs, at least as a baseline, so you can compare specific bits later on.


i agree completely. 1999 or was it 2000? i went for manual PT only after neurologist had me go for head and neck MRIs. fast forward, 2010, the chiro wouldn't touch me until he reviewed all my X-rays and MRIs that i'd had done.


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