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[ramsey20]

i was rear ended at 45 mph and my first complaint was the left side of my head hurt.physical therapy,chiro,accupuncture,occipital nerve block......nothing.went for medial branch block and procedure had to be aborted ...was told i was combative....was told i was flailing around with needles in neck.....what a mess.i had mri on neck ...was told nothing serious..my whole left side from the back of my head to the middle of my leg hurts horribly.i am 41 and was very healthy heavy equipment operator prior to mva .my left hand goes numb quite often

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hi.

I am referring to spinal surgery. Especially for the spinal canal stenosis, the osteophyte and the narrowing of the neural foramina.

Regards

[ramsey20]

i dont know what that means...i can build a house though....surgery of what kind ?one and a half years of severe pain on whole left side...thank you for your time and your opinion

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hi.

Your spinal cord has all the reasons to be producing the symptoms of nerve compression.

The neural foramina are narrowed, the cord is flattened by the bony growth.

Have you considered surgery ?

Regards

[ramsey20]

small disc protrusion,mild hypertrophy of right facet,mild disc disiccation,narrowing of both neural foramina,also narrowinr of the right side of the canal,with spondylotic osteophyte flattening the right anterolateral aspect of the cord...bilateral nerve root diverticula...mild spondylotic disc and uncinate process hypertrophy with mild canal and bilateral foraminal stenosis at c6-7....nerve root sheath diverticula at c7-t1

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

In a rear end collision, the neck gets affected, due to the sudden deceleration. When they say nothing serious, do they say there are no abnormal findings ? Any disc bulging ? A disc bulging or protrusion will press on the cord, producing symptoms. If the problem is more severe, there could be spinal canal stenosis.

Your hand numbness is also probably due to nerve root compression at the cervical spinal level.

Please let me know about the MRI report.

Regards