get an m.r.i. s or x-rays and a lot of that won t be necessary. what the recommendation is this goes on for six weeks and your symptoms are getting worse. if there are any neurologic issues that are progressive, then you should get tested. otherwise, you probably don t need it, it s muscle pain that will go away. i want to make sure you get to the last two points. what about screenings for osteoporosis? bone density tests are on the rise and a lot of guys advise for this. if you re a woman over 65, you should make sure every year you get this test. you re at a high risk of osteoporosis, for men, it would be over the age of 70. thank you so much for your time today. nice to see you. thank you so much. 6:56 the time on the clock. coming up on fox & friends , gas prices are coming down. don t celebrate just yet. why stuart varney says it s actually a sign of economy is weak! then a real kodak moment turns into a complete nightmare. a dock collapsed and an entire wedding party s
that will be a lot more discretionary especially around the examples of doing scat cans or m.r.i. s for someone who has a headache at the emergency room. you are trying to impose a tax to get consumes to see a doctor more but you have the push back from the medical community that says, wait, here we are, we are not getting any incentive, we are getting punished for doing unnecessary tests and well be more you judicious so the medicl community is coming out in terms of saying we probably want do do less, than more. neil: well, doctor, my hat is off to you, we have seen a lot of this before anyone did. good to see you again. thank you. spain. greece. italy. france. germany. the u.k. think they are drowning in
of sense. some medications, anti-depressants can as you this as well. those are the side effects. arthel: all 12 girls aren t taking ritalin. i agree, something is going on that we don t know. they talk about because of hipa. arthel: the privacy rule which basically says that we can t let everybody know because it could break out a health scare, basically right? that s what we practice as a physician. i never share anybody s information from one patient to another. if you have some sort of an epidemic going on and a series of girls coming up with this kind of thing, cdc has to get involved and give us a good recommendation. what parents need to watch out for. a lot of this recovers and resolves gradually on its own. some of this ticks are simple ones, they are basically blinking, small motor movements, some of them are very complex. if it goes on after a couple of months they need to see neurologists, get mri s. arthel: after a couple of months? i don t think i d wait that long.
m.r.i. s may be unnecessary among patients being treated for back pain. doctors often order an m.r.i. before giving patients a steroid injection to help with the pain but a study at john hopkins university found that after three months there was no difference between patients who got an injection based on m.r.i. results and those who got one based on a physical exam only. hi everybody. good morning. i m thomas roberts. in the next hour on msnbc the unemployment rate drops to 8.5%. 200,000 new jobs added in december. is the u.s. economy on the rebound and can the president take claim for that? president obama speaking live in the next hour. newt gingrich lashing out for saying african-americans should demand pay checks and not be satisfied with foodstamps. we ll have full reaction.
m.r.i. s may be unnecessary among patients being treated for back pain. doctors often order an m.r.i. before giving patients a steroid injection to help with the pain but a study at john hopkins university found that after three months there was no difference between patients who got an injection based on m.r.i. results and those who got one based on a physical exam only. hi everybody. good morning. i m thomas roberts. in the next hour on msnbc the unemployment rate drops to 8.5%. 200,000 new jobs added in december. is the u.s. economy on the rebound and can the president take claim for that? president obama speaking live in the next hour. newt gingrich lashing out for saying african-americans should demand pay checks and not be satisfied with foodstamps. we ll have full reaction. then jon huntsman is the one republican candidate who hasn t