i am right in thinking that MRI scans are always accurate....aren't they?

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DD1 had an MRI last week and (thankfully)her results were all good.I'm so worried about her unexplained limp though,that i've actually started to question everything again.(Please God i'm just being paranoid.)
She has lower back pain which is causing her to do a kind of one-sided toe walk...it doesn't hurt until she puts her foot down.I know that this is what alerted the doctors in the first place.Does anyone have any experience of their child having had the same thing.Did it last a long time?I am-by no means-wanting the results to be anything but good,but I can't help being scared.

I personally don't think MRI scans are that accurate. I have a problem with a knee and had & MRI Scan & they found nothing, yet there is definitely something wrong with my knee they can't find! Last time it 'went' I ended up on gas & air & an ambulance to hospital. Luckily baby was in her cot and husband was home to look after her when I got whisked off!

My DM had an MRI scan recently and the doctor explained the accuracy something like this....

The scan can only show abnormalities in the structures of the body. What it can't do is show abnormalities in the way the body is working/processing/responding to stimuli. So.... if you were getting shoulder pain and MRI could show if the bones etc. in the shoulder were misaligned but it would not pick up any neurological or immune problems.

Not sure if that is very clear - but I really hope your DDs back pain is diagnosed soon.

But,if there was anything serious (if you understand what i mean?),does the MRI show those sort of things up.

ck...if you are asking would they show up, for example a tumour, then yes, pretty definitely (although there are never any 100% guarantees, with anything)