News Connecticut News ‘X-ray vison’ allows a CT surgeon to see the spine through the patient’s back. Here’s how he does it. Tina Encarnacion/Tina Encarnacion / UConn Health 1 of 3 ...

Doctors can see bamboo spine on an X-ray because the spinal vertebrae appear square and close together. Treatment for bamboo spine depends on each individual case and does not always involve surgery.

Meaning if you have routine pain over an area of your spine, then an X-ray is not a diagnostic tool to confirm your condition. Thus, the X-ray is irrelevant and you, yourself, have been exposed to ...