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If you have pain with certain movements it may help with the diagnosis. The doctor may ask you to lie on your back and lift your leg while holding it straight or perform other movements.Your doctor may also inject a contrast material (a dye) into your spinal canal to help show the problem area. These tests let your doctor see the structures in your neck or back. Imaging tests, such as an X-ray, CT scan, or MRI scan.Possible tests to diagnose this problem are: Worsening pain when you move your neck or turn your head.A feeling of numbness or pins and needles in the arm.Symptoms of pinched nerve in the neck include:
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This problem is most likely to occur in your lower back (lumbar radiculopathy), but it can also affect your neck (cervical radiculopathy) or other parts of your spinal cord. When there is injury or compression that affect these nerve roots, the condition is called radiculopathy or more commonly, a pinched nerve. Nerve roots branch off the cord and go between each vertebrae. Your spinal cord runs downward through a canal in the center of these bones.
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Your spine is made of many bones called vertebrae.
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