Cervical spine
X-ray
- Skeletal damage
- Assessing degree of degenerative change
CT (without contrast)
- To more easily exclude skeletal damage
- Not used with nerve root symptoms
MRI
- Assessing prolapses, nerve root symptoms
- Assessing spacial conditions in the spinal canal
- Suspected intra spinal tumour
- Suspected demyelinating disease
- Syringomyelia