schmorl's nodes

[xafnndapp]

My sister in Italy is 55, after intense pain at her back for a few days (middle section, with shooting pains also at her rib-cage), she went and had X-rays taken yesterday, and they told her she has Schmorl's nodes at her D-11 vertebre.
No ostheoporosis.

She is quite fit and active, she told me that this pain began after a few days of some extra effort she did carrying something and possibly after an intense session with her chiropractic she has been  seeing regularly for a few years now. She doesn't recall something specific that she did to cause the pain to start.

Her pain is diminished but of course she wants to be reassured that it is not something really problematic.
I did a little research and saw more or less what this is about.

What's the best immediate "therapy" for her?
Rest and chiropratic? Is there something she should be avoiding doing from now on or can she have a normal life?

Thank you very much for your advice.

STEFANO

[harishmurali]

Hi,

I am having nagging pain in my back for the past one and a half months. MRI shows that I have a schmorl's node at L2. I have consulted 2 doctors and they say that there is nothing to worry and everything is normal with the mri findings. Pain is not going away. I have tried interferential therapy, ultrasound etc. and i have also done some exercises to strengthen my back muscles. But nothing is giving me a complete relief. Any idea when this pain will go away ?

Thanks.,
Harish

[julie5553]

hi i  have nodes on my T2-T12 it hurts hard to sit,, pain intense around rib area,,, my nero didnt say anythang about what to do,, even my regular doc asks me what my nero doc told me to do ,,,so what am i gonna do made appt, to see nero doc an make him explain to me what do i do about the pain? i also had fusion on my L3,L2,4,, an have osteo,, on my right hip,, tyvm for listening,,julie

[bbbb123]

Im only 17, i've been having back pain since mid august, had an mri scan 2 days ago and turns out i have schmorl's node. The doc says its because of the sports i do, he says its not alarming and will heal but it will take a very long time.

[caissex2]

I was in a car accident May 13, 2010, where a lady T BONED me at about 70mph and ruined my life forever I thought. Its the ignorence of the doctors, hospitals, and then the cover up for the first one who screwed up because if you tell them you were in a 70mph T BONE, crushed between the door and console, and knocked out cold without my head hitting anything, and didn't go to the hospital because I said I was alright! I was in shock, my body was so in shock I guess I didn't feel anything at the time because I lost my memory for 3 months, then all heck broke loose. I find out that my vision was so bad and so disoriented, and PAIN, PAIN that only people like us can imagine. I was discharged from a Neurologist 3 days after I saw him. I had tests from him that my wife took me too. One was for a EEG for Seizures but when I regained my memory I saw that it was for Pschosis and never received from hospital the results. 4 MRI'S Brain, Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar. I had so much damage it was ridiculous. But the worse thing is that on my Thoracic which has several herniations, I have Chronic Schmorl's Nodes.
Small endplate depressions are noted adjacent to the disk spaces in the lower Thoracic Spine consistent with CHRONIC SCHMORL'S NODES. I have had so many doctors ignore this and when I tell them that the worse pain you can possibley imagine comes from the middle back to my chest, that makes it extremely hard to breathe and this is 24/7 and even a Neurosurgeon all of them put on their reports that there is no reason we see that there should be any pain in this area!!!!! I have never got any medical help in over a year. The only thing I got were tests that were not suppose to show anything but did and so they put only stenosis lumbar. I did get 1 doctor to give me another MRI asked for upper and middle but only would give me a lumbar MRI because in 2002 I had some herniation in lower back. This was about 11 months after the first and when it came back 3 time worse than the first I was again discharged. I raced motorcycles for 10 years when I was young and have been in pain sinse 15 but it never bothered me or was a problem. Until I damaged my Thoracic on May 13, 2010 and now after 39 years this pain is so bad that I would rather be in the looney house, because I never thought that anything could cause this much pain that it drives you crazy. So anyone who for a minute thinks that having Schmorl's nodes is nothing I say let me beat you in the back with a baseball bat several times a hour for a year, then if you tell me that I am not in or any of you out there are not in the most extreme pain all of the time, then I guess there ready for another round of the bat.

[Braintoobig]

Just curious, can these thing improve or go away? They popped up on my MRI and I'm wondering if they will always be like that or can they get better?

[Wendy2141951]

I have been misdiagnosed with stigmata of juvenile discogenic disease to explain the Schmorl's nodes.  The real cause was a car accident.  I think the confusion is that the thoracic spine is supposed to be protected from injury more than cervical and lumbar regions because of the rib cage.  I am in terrible pain, too.  I think the explanation of the leaking of chemical from kwood1 above makes the most sense.  Good luck finding a doctor who understands this condition.