Interactive · Patient Education
Your Whole-Spine MRI Report, Decoded
Below is a realistic sample MRI report — the kind of language you might see in your own results. Click each numbered finding to read what the report says… and what it actually means.
A complete spine MRI, finding by finding
One sagittal sweep from the neck to the tailbone — five findings, decoded.
A sample report for education — not your scan, and not a diagnosis. Findings only matter when they line up with your symptoms and exam.
The Bottom Line
Your “Impression,” decoded.
Every MRI report ends with an “Impression” — the radiologist’s summary. Here is this sample’s impression, line by line:
MRI-report jargon, translated
Have a report of your own?
Bring it — Dr. Hobbs walks through your actual images with you, finding by finding.