10/22/2026
Why getting that MRI won't help you get any better.
As you may or may not know, I specialize in getting people out of pain and back to living life to their fullest. In some cases, people ask if they should get an x-ray or an MRI. If you are just interested in the short answer and do not care about what the research says, the short answer is no. Or at least, probably not.
Imaging can help, but not usually if it is used in isolation. You also need some sort of an evaluation and the willingness to actually make some changes to get yourself out of pain.
Step one when after evaluating a person is to TREAT WHAT YOU FIND not what’s on the image. I have met plenty of people that had and MRI before we met yet their evaluation and associated symptoms did not match up with what the image was showing.
Blindly seeking out an image to solve your pain riddle is no different than hopping from exercise program to exercise program or from diet to diet and wondering why nothing is improving.
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