No point to routine X-rays, scans for low back pain, review finds

Friday, February 6, 2009 - 16:49 in Health & Medicine

It may not only be unhelpful to use X-rays, MRI and CT scans for people with low back pain, but it may also expose them to low doses of radiation unnecessarily.

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