Is any of this related to arm pain and sensations?

[yulrene]

My husband had an mri done of his full spine. This was because of many undiagnosed symptoms, mostly in his left arm. He has been experiencing numbness, tingling and pain in his arm in varrying degrees.

The findings were this:
1. Straightening of the normal lordotic curvature is seen with no definitive neural foraminal or canal stenosis.
2. Grade 1 spondylolisthesis of L5 on S1 with broad-based posterior disc bulge. No neural foraminal stenosis seen.
3. Broad-based posterior disc bulge at the level of L4-L5 causing indentation on thecal sac.

The research we have done says that these problems should be resulting in leg pain, not arm. Could any of these findings be resulting in his arm symptoms?

[osteodoc10]

No, you will not get arm numbness with a lumbar spine problem because the nerves that go to the arm leave the spine at C5,C6,C7,C8 and T1 levels (in his neck). He could have a pinched nerve in his neck or thoracic outlet syndrome.