Other causes include spine trauma, rheumatoid arthritis and bone diseases. Some people may be born with a narrow vertebral canal in the neck. Flexing the neck may worsen symptoms. Often the history of ...

Since the pain was impacting his daily life, Steve Loutzenhiser went for an MRI and found out, at only 41 years old, he had a tumor in his spinal cord that could not be easily removed. His wife ...

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the patient's cervical and thoracic spine was obtained which ... aspiration to look for infection or tumor, and an MRI to evaluate for syringomyelia ...