> From: "Noelle)" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/Noelleg> > Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:42:56 -0700 > > I was coding a chart and pt. had pain down thigh to ankle and low back > pain. She had a ruptured lumbar disc. She had to have surgery to relieve > the pain. Anyway, your MD may want you to get a CT or MRI to rule out a > disc squishing the nerve. What about x-rays? They don't do that any more ?