The Imaging Center

Make sure your physician has the best and most information to diagnose your disease or injury. Closed-bore MRI provides much higher image quality and better coverage of the body faster compared to an open MRI. The key is the magnet strength. Closed MRI gives the best results with significantly better images compared to the open-bore MRI. The higher magnet strength equates to better detail in the images.

Lower back pain is a common reason that patients come into The Imaging Center for MRIs, X-rays, and other types of imaging. Taking measures to strengthen your lower back can help prevent and alleviate back pain. Knee-to-chest stretches are one easy exercise you can do at home to relieve pain and tension in the back.

To do a knee-to-chest stretch:

• Lie down on the floor on your back.
• Bend your knees with feet flat on the floor
• Take both of your hands and pull one of your knees towards your chest.
• Hold that position for five seconds, ensuring the spine is pressed into the floor to create a stretch.
• Return to start.
• Repeat this movement with the other knee.
• Do with both legs 2-3 times twice daily.

Thought this was an interesting tid-bit about x-rays....

It was totally by accident that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered what is now called an x ray on Friday 8 November 1895. In early 1896 he used them to make this image of his wife hand. She exclaimed- "I have seen my death!". It changed physics and medicine forever.

Why does imaging cost less at The Imaging Center? We have less overhead, and we don't have multiple layers of management. Hospitals stay open 24 hours/day all 365 days of the year, so they have more overhead. If you have a true emergency, then you should go to the hospital. For all your other diagnostic imaging needs The Imaging Center offers more affordable imaging without the stress of a hospital setting.