Don’t Stress About That Mri!

Don’t Stress About That Mri!

January 8, 2022

And I am a nerd – so here is another article on knee pain and how imaging is not particularly helpful in diagnosis or establishing the ideal course of care.  This is why you need a thorough  high precision assessment with a Marino Physio Specialist!

Yes – this is correct! 97% of knees that have NO PAIN or obvious limitations in a sedentary adult will show signs of “abnormalities” on imaging.  This reinforces what we know about the NORMAL aging process and is great news for people with signs of arthritis or meniscal damage – it means you CAN be pain free despite what an x-ray or MRI snapshot looks like. 

Horga LM, Hirschmann AC, Henckel J, Fotiadou A, Di Laura A, Torlasco C, D’Silva A, Sharma S, Moon JC, Hart AJ. Prevalence of abnormal findings in 230 knees of asymptomatic adults using 3.0 T MRI. Skeletal Radiol. 2020 Jul;49(7):1099-1107. 

Check out the article for yourself here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32060622/

This Blog presented by:

Alaina Rae Marino
PT, DPT, cDN, CMPT, COMT2, OCS, FAAOMPT

Alaina has been helping people out of pain without medications, injections, or surgery since 2005.  She is a board certified Orthopedic Specialist and completed a 3 year Fellowship in Orthopedic Manual Therapy.  When not helping patients in the clinic, she enjoys teaching PT students for both South College and Lincoln Memorial University, hiking with her pups and family, and tinkering in the kitchen.

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