Regardless of the disease, listening carefully to your complaints is the first condition for an accurate diagnosis. Of course, a detailed examination to be made after this is the essence of the work. The examinations that will be requested later will complete this process. Of course, it is not possible for such an evaluation to take place less than 30 minutes or less than 20 minutes. If your doctor spares you three to five minutes and asks for your direct examinations without even touching you, there is no chance to make a healthy diagnosis for your complaints. Worse still, if he misdiagnoses you, his treatment will be wrong. This is how all disasters begin.
In fact, your profession, the sports you are involved in, the accidents you may have had in the past, your diagnosed diseases, the drugs you drink, whether you have a habit of smoking, the surgeries you have had; These are all very important issues to know for a good diagnosis. As for the examination, it starts with measuring your weight and height; I mean a thorough examination that ends with an examination of your entire neck, back, and even the back of your waist after you undress, and this examination is repeated as you tilt and straighten your head.
MR may come first when it comes to the examinations that will help the diagnosis, but of course it is not an open MR and it is an MR examination that takes at least 15 minutes to be taken on a good machine. Along with MRI, blood tests are almost always requested so that some important diseases are not overlooked. Once this has been seen, you’ll still almost always need x-rays, especially when you’re standing and straightening your head. Sometimes, nerve measurements such as EMG, MEP, SEP with computed tomography are also frequently requested.
