studies have produced conflicting results concerning the clinical usefulness of the information gained by MRI."-" Results from a study conducted by Modic and colleagues, in patients with radiculopathy, low back pain and scia- tica, implied that changes observed by means of MRI add little or no clinic

ht into the means by which to fine-tune the therapy pro- vided to individual patients. One such study involving diagnostic criteria sug- gests that Modic changes may be an objective marker EFTA00308042 204 BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH FOR NURSING Vol. 6. No. 1 January 2005 of discogenic low-back pain. Modic