Analyze My Spine editorial policy
Who writes about your spine here
The disc, nerve and spine MRI pages are written by the JointLens team that operates this site. None of us is a spine surgeon, neurologist or radiologist, and no clinician reviews the pages before publication. Articles are therefore published under the name Analyze My Spine, with no individual medical author attached.
How AI is involved
We use AI language models to help draft pages and to translate them. Someone on the team then edits each draft and compares its medical statements with the sources cited on the page. Every language other than English is an AI translation of the English page, which is the version we correct first. The spine analyzer is a separate tool: several general-purpose AI models describe the MRI or X-ray slices you choose, and their answers reach you without human review.
The evidence we build on
Spine reports use words that mean different things to different readers, so we anchor ours in published consensus. Disc terms such as bulge, protrusion and extrusion follow the lumbar disc nomenclature agreed by the North American Spine Society and two radiology societies; disc degeneration follows the Pfirrmann grading paper. Peer-reviewed reviews from PubMed fill in the rest. Each medical page names its main references in a Sources list. Chiropractic or device marketing is never used as evidence.
What a spine page cannot do
A page can tell you what a herniated disc touching a nerve root looks like on MRI. It is not medical advice, it is not a diagnosis, and it cannot judge whether that finding explains your pain. New weakness in a leg, numbness in the groin or trouble passing urine needs emergency care, not reading. Our Medical Disclaimer covers this in more detail.
How often we re-check
Each guide carries an Updated date. We return to a spine page when the nomenclature, grading or guideline it uses is revised, and when a reader flags an issue. We are a small team and do not run a timed review of every page.
Sending a correction
Send corrections through the contact form below with the page address and the statement in question. If you know a stronger source, add it. Errors we confirm get fixed and the page date moves forward.
Spine scans stay on your computer
Spine studies are parsed inside your browser and not uploaded to our servers. When you ask the AI a question, it receives rendered images of the chosen slices and your words, not the original DICOM series. More in our Privacy Policy.