This patient came in with severe low back pain and had multiple diagnoses which may be the problem. One diagnoses which I see from time to time was spondylolisthesis. An article by Mary Rodts, DNP, CNP, ONC, FAAN goes in detail on this condition, which was found on the web at http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article114.html. This is a condition where one vertebra slips over another. This is found most frequently in lumbar area and is graded by severity on how far it is slipped forward. The grades go from least severe (grade 1) to most severe (grade 5). This patient had a grade 2 almost grade 3 diagnoses which means 50 to 70 percent of the vertebral body has slipped forward. This is a sagittal T2 image of the lumbar spine.
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