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Want to know if myelopathy is still a form of neuropathy
Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Jul 7, 2020 | Replies (14)Comment receiving replies
@nanashelly Myelopathy would be diagnosed by a neurologist or spine surgeon as some damage to the spinal cord. I had mild myelopathy because of spinal cord compression from bone spurs with cervical spinal stenosis in the central canal and had corrective surgery at Mayo. It did not show up on MRI. With more advanced myelopathy, it does show up on MRI as a whitish area in the spinal cord and can be permanent damage. If you have myelopathy and scoliosis, you may want to see a spine surgeon who's area of interest is in spine deformity. Here is a short video from my spine surgeon at Mayo about scoliosis.
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Thank you so much for your information, I had severe scoliosis they found it when I was 12 and wore braces until I was 16 and nothing happened so I ended up having surgery and this was in the 1970's. They fused almost the entire spine and put a rod in and they left 4 or so that were not fused. Now I have had 3 others one of them 5 yrs ago tried to fix my flat back and messed it up so 2 yrs ago I found a Dr who deals with spinal deformations and he did surgery and he was able to fix my flat back and after surgery is when I started to feel the numbness, tingling, pain and electrical shocks and it has moved all the way up my legs.