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RESEARCH ARTICLE                      BIOSCIENCE RESEARCH, 2025 22(4): 205-209.                     OPEN ACCESS

Low Back Pain Patients: a Correlation between MRI findings in current and future Disc Herniation Grade 1 and 3

Qurain Turki Alshammari^1*, Mona Ahmed Alshardi² , Amal Hathal Alshammari³, Abdullah Helaeil Alenezi⁴, Rahaf Awad Alshammari⁵, Fatimah Hussein Alshardy², Ala’ Mansour Qazaq⁶, Meshari Turki Alshammari ¹

¹Diagnostic radiology Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia

²Diagnostic Radiology Department, South Qunfudah General Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

³ Diagnostic Radiology Department, King Abdullah Specialized Hospital, Qassim, Saudi Arabia

⁴ Diagnostic Radiology department, Security medical services Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁵ Diagnostic Radiology department, College of dentistry, University of hail, Saudi Arabia

⁶ Department of radiology and nuclear Medicines, Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.65970/br.2026.134                                                                   

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a procedure used to assess the effects of a herniated disc. There is a hypothesis that there might be a correlation between MRI findings at baseline and follow-up to determine whether there is an ability to predict future progress in LBP among LBP patients with mild and sever disc prolapse (grade 1 and 3-disc herniation) with the help of MRI findings. This study consisted of a total of 50 patients, all of whom gave their informed consent to participate in the study. Using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), patients were asked to rate how intensely the back pain. For all patients, the spine was assessed by MRI scan. Within 1.5 years of baseline MRI scan, 50 volunteers were repeat MRI scan for LBP patients.In this study, we found that age, VAS, and disc herniation were weakly correlated. In addition, Our longitudinal study found that most of the MRI findings did not seem to be linked to future LBP - severity, whether the participant experienced LBP in the past or not (r= 0.07, p=0.8).it was discovered that MRI scans in both ongoing and forthcoming studies do not exhibit a statistically noteworthy association with the magnitude and position of lumbar disc herniation, pain.

Keywords: Low back pain, Disability, Disc Prolapse, MRI, MSU