Meaning if you have routine pain over an area of your spine, then an X-ray is not a diagnostic tool to confirm your condition. Thus, the X-ray is irrelevant and you, yourself, have been exposed to ...

Dr. Isaac Moss, an orthopedic surgeon at UConn Health, can see his patient’s spinal column during surgery without cutting the back open or even having to look at a two-dimensional X-ray on a screen.

Doctors can see bamboo spine on an X-ray because the spinal vertebrae appear square and close together. Treatment for bamboo spine depends on each individual case and does not always involve surgery.

When elderly patients have suffered fractures, their hip and lumbar spine bone density is examined with the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) method, to find out if they need treatment for ...