Foot Pain Can Be Disabling — Even When X-rays Look Normal Foot pain affects walking, standing, work, and daily life. Many common foot problems involve soft tissues, tendons, ligaments, or early stress injuries, which X-rays often cannot detect. Whe...
Read More >Normal X-rays Don’t Always Explain Hip Pain Hip X-rays mainly show bone alignment and arthritis. Many common causes of hip pain involve cartilage, labrum, tendons, muscles, or bone marrow, which are not visible on X-ray. When pain persists, MRI is ...
Read More >Normal X-rays Don’t Always Explain Hip Pain Hip pain can be difficult to diagnose because many important hip structures—labrum, cartilage, tendons, muscles, and bone marrow—are not visible on X-rays. When pain persists despite “normal” X-ra...
Read More >Normal X-rays Don’t Always Mean a Normal Shoulder X-rays mainly show bones and joint alignment. Many common shoulder problems involve tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and soft tissues, which cannot be seen on X-ray. When pain persists, MRI is often t...
Read More >Normal X-rays Don’t Always Mean a Normal Knee X-rays mainly show bones and joint alignment. Many common knee problems involve cartilage, ligaments, tendons, or soft tissues, which are invisible on X-ray. When pain persists, MRI is often the next st...
Read More >Tailbone Pain Is Small in Area—but Big in Impact Tailbone (coccyx) pain can be deceptively disruptive. Even short periods of sitting can become uncomfortable, and recovery is often slow when the underlying cause isn’t clear. Because many coccyx p...
Read More >Why Back Pain Can Persist After an Injury After a fall, accident, or sudden strain, X-rays may look normal—yet pain continues. This is because many post-injury problems involve discs, ligaments, soft tissues, or nerves, which X-rays cannot show. MR...
Read More >Spinal Stenosis Often Shows Up When You Start Walking Spinal stenosis is a condition where the spinal canal or nerve exit spaces narrow, commonly in the lower back. Many patients only notice symptoms when they walk or stand for a period of time. Beca...
Read More >Normal X-rays Don’t Always Mean a Normal Spine Many patients in Singapore are told their back X-rays look “normal,” yet the pain continues. This is because X-rays mainly show bones and alignment—not discs, nerves, ligaments, or soft tissues. ...
Read More >
