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youmin 发表于 2013-5-15 23:06 
呵呵,只是些浅薄的知识,希望能帮到大家
急性的腰背痛,个人认为最好找医生做综合评价先,有影像检查结 ...
不知道你为什么会从我的帖子里得出我取代医生看xray这种结论。我的帖子里貌似没有任何这方面的indication吧。 忍不住又要歪楼主的楼,不好意思恩恩。
I'll try to make my point more clearly this time.
No offense to you but it appears there are some misconception on how physiotherapists work or how this part of healthcare system works. We do ask if they have had an MRI as part of routine questioning, but patients will not be refused service simply because they haven't got a MRI. If a patient comes in with a MRI report that's great, but half of them don't have any scans when they are referred by the doctors ( from both the hospital and GPs) You might not feel comfortable about this, but that's what is happening here in Melbourne.
The reasons for this:
1: there is an increasing trend in the medical industry to reduce MRIs / CTs for back pain, because what shows up in the picture often does not correlate to symptom. Do a simple Google search and the information is everywhere.
"If you take a hundred patients who are middle-aged who have no back problems, and you get an MRI of their back, a third of them are going to have abnormal MRIs," says Jeffrey Goldstein, MD, medical director of the Spine Service at the New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases.
lead author Derek J. Emery, MD, and colleagues write in a research letter published online March 25, 2013, in JAMA Internal Medicine. "Lumbar spine MRI numbers have increased dramatically in recent years, but the correlation between lumbar spine MRI findings and clinical signs and symptoms is poor."
2: If patients have to sit on the waiting list for weeks before seeing the specialist and getting the MRI, a lot of time is wasted in between. Not to mention the time and resources can be use by other people who actually need access to MRIs.
3. We physiotherapists are fully aware that not all back pain are mechanical in nature and our clinical assessment is designed to look for sinister pathologies such as fractures and cancers and spinal cord compressions etc. If there's anything serious, we will refer back to the doctors. Physio is very much mainstream here in terms of musculoskeletal / spinal problems and we work closely with doctors / surgeons etc, and we DO NOT JUST TREAT PEOPLE WITH NORMAL MRIs.
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