Publisher's Synopsis
This is clearly and concisely written. It tied together many "loose ends" of your questions about disc degeneration. This book will help me explain degenerative changes to your patients.
This book had much to offer you in the way of information and photography for patients. You can get a proper viewpoint. You can learn more about the various spinal diseases and injuries.
Dr. Morgan does a great job of explaining Modic changes in an understandable manner. The diagrams and images used to show different pathologies were extremely helpful.
This book is highly recommended to a more professional reader as the language is clearly medical in nature. But a patient was able to glean quite a bit from the book.
Highlights of this Book:
It contains high-quality illustrations and MRI images intended to enhance understanding.
It has a concise focus on the topic that will allow the reader to understand complicated concepts in a short amount of time, perhaps even in one sitting.
It discusses related findings on MRI: Metastatic disease, vertebral endplate fracture, vertebral hemangioma, and fatty infiltration into the bone.
It contains a commentary on the research which points to bacterial infections and Modic 1 changes being a source of lower back pain.
It includes three bonus chapters in the appendices. Introduction to Reading MRI, Anatomic Atlas of the Lumbar Spine, and Nomenclature of Disc Derangements. For those struggling to read MRI, the appendices are a great resource to help master this skill.
