Normal Scan but Still in Pain? The Picture Is Not the Pain
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Why scans so often disagree with how you feel: imaging findings in people who feel fine, real pain with clear pictures, what scans are genuinely for — and the question no scanner can answer. Plain language, fully referenced, free to download.
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It is one of the most disorienting experiences in healthcare: the scan comes back clear, and you are still in pain. Or its mirror image — you feel fine, and the report reads like a demolition notice. If either has happened to you, nothing was wrong with the scan, and nothing is wrong with you. Something is wrong with what we ask scans to do.
This article opens the Patient Reading Room’s argument at its first door: why imaging findings are everywhere in people who feel fine; why real pain so often arrives with an unremarkable picture; what scans are genuinely for — and genuinely good at; and the question no scanner has ever been able to answer, because it cannot be photographed: not what your body looks like, lying still, but what it can actually do. That question lives in function — in how you stand, transfer weight and walk — and it is the question the rest of this series is about.
Plain language, fully referenced, free to download. Next in the series: The Free Part of Walking (No. 2). The mission statement of the whole series is No. 0, Don’t Wait to Break.
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