Since the Bank Secrecy Act of 1973 requires your bank to microfilm all of your checks and hold these records for six years, the state can get intimate details of your life from a study of your checking account.
The rap against MRIs as a diagnostic tool for low back pain is not that the scans usually reveal nothing, or even that they're expensive, it's that they often show a lot of abnormalities in the back that may have nothing to do with the source of your pain.
If you are scheduled for MRI scanning, you should know that it is the most common test for looking into the spine other than a standard x-ray. What Does An MRI Scan Show? An MRI can show clear details of the spine. It provides pictures that show the condition of discs, ligaments, muscles and bones in much greater detail than an x-ray. It can show early signs of disc degeneration by focusing onthe central part of the disc called the nucleus. Observing loss of water in the nucleus is an early sign of disc degeneration.