Dealing with MRI Misconceptions and Pain
===
Speaker: [00:00:00] This is going to hurt a little.
This week, a patient came in to show me the results of their MRI. Now, she was a bit panicked about the results because. Uh, aside from a lot of the medical terminology, um, she did see a word that kind of stuck out to her, and that word was tearing and she didn't know what to do about it, but she knew it related to muscles and tendons, so.
What she did do was, uh, she stopped doing her strengthening exercises. This is a problem for her because those strengthening exercises were helping [00:01:00] with her pain, and now that she has stopped doing them, her pain has gotten worse.
This wasn't some tearing of any ligament. It was of muscle and an irritation of that muscle's tendon.
We naturally tear muscle when we exercise naturally occurring phenomena. It's nothing to freak out about. We also wear and tear muscles and tendons as we age.
A naturally occurring phenomena, so don't freak out [00:02:00] when you get an MRI that shows that you have wear and tear of, of muscle, especially I think lute medias and glu minimus that is responsible for keeping your hips level.
With walking, going up and down stairs to be a little irritated when you're in your late fifties, early sixties. That's a normal finding.
Now one can argue. Well, if it were normal, why mention it at all in the MRI? Well, you did go to see an orthopedic who put in an order for the MRI so he and the technician. Are going to look for anything that could possibly allude to you having the pain that you have.[00:03:00]
Folks, if you are needing help navigating your life, now that you've received what you perceive to be bad news on your MRI. Please book a consult with me at kinesmovement.com and let's work this. Until then, please continue to work out, do more weight less. I'll see you on the next one.
