I have severe back pain. At work I was hit on the head with a 500lb backhoe bucket. I think my pain is caused from that. I recently got an MRI and it staes the following findings: the visualized images of the abdomen and pelvis are unremarkable. the conus terminates at L1-L2. There is no loss of vertebral body height, Alignment is maintained. No marrow signal abnormality. There is very mild degenerative disc desiccation at L3-L4. there is no evidence of disc bulge. No central spinal canal or neural foraminal stenosis. what does this mean?
Thank you for the question. Your MRI r/o any spinal abnormality directly. It is possible that at the time of the impact you may have abnormal crouched or fallen down with sudden contraction of back muscles causing some muscle injury/sprain or pull along with other soft tissues around spine. You may stop bending/lifting heavy objects for a few days and take adequate bed rest to ease the muscles. Do fomentation and take Ibuprofen 600 mg twice a day after meals along with chloaxazone 500 mg twice for 5 days