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MRI Services

Drisko Fee & Parkins In-Office MRI Services at the 2790 Clay Edwards Drive location. Extremity MRI is available on an appointment basis for authorized patients either through participating personal insurance or worker's compensation carriers. Image quality is essential in getting good results. All MRIs will be over-read by an orthopedic radiologist to ensure continued quality.

Significant savings are achieved by scheduling your MRI needs through Drisko Fee & Parkins.

What is an Extremity MRI?

Our system is optimized to image the extremity. Our MRI system can scan the following extremities with ease and efficiency:

Knee
Ankle
Elbow
Forearm
Shoulder
Leg
Foot
Wrist
Hand

The patient is located comfortably outside the magnet during the examination with the extremity extended into the system for imaging.

Image quality and imaging times compare very favorably with the same studies performed on the whole-body imagers. Furthermore, patients are not subject to the claustrophobic reactions common to whole body imagers, since they remain outside the magnet at all times.

Advantages of our MRI System:

Improved patient management: Our in-office MRI allows the surgeon to maintain control of patient care through the entire diagnostic process, letting us decide on site how to scan the patient. Patients are therefore no longer subject to the schedules of an outside imaging center.
Increased Patient Convenience: Performing our own MRI in the office means a patient is not subject to the time loss and frustration and expense of traveling to an outside imaging center. Instead we are able to speed up the diagnostic and therapy process which means significant cost savings for both the patient and the insurer. Patients also appreciate the claustrophobic-free design.
Better Diagnostic Service: Our in-office MRI can greatly improve our diagnosis by delivering immediate feedback on a patient's pathology. Several studies have concluded MRI is valuable adjunct to a physical examination, especially in cases where more than one lesion is present.

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