typically physician will start with xray (for cost/time)- if xray indicates and MRI would be more bennifitial and offer more information on the nerve roots and disc space cause the pain suspected to be sciatica.
MRI would be the exam for diagnosis.
ask your physician what the clinical treatment is weather or not an MRI is done- if clinical treatment is equal - save the money- but a pious diagnosis is done with MRI
Sciatica is a clinical diagnosis. That resources the diagnosis is made from the history and physical. Imaging is only necessary if it shows no signs of improvement after several weeks or if near is suspicion of a more serious underlying problem. Depending on what the physician is concerned about the imaging could be a CT, MRI, plain X-ray, or bone scan.
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