Maarten Vasbinder lives in Isaan. His profession is general practitioner, a profession that he mainly practiced in Spain. On Thailandblog he answers questions from readers who live in Thailand.
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Dear Martin,
I fell and have a lot of pain in my upper arm and back. I've already had cortisone injections and they don't help. They want to do an MRI scan now, but I am 2 meters tall and 100 kg. The machine is so small that I wanted to get out of it after 2 minutes.
They now want to put me under anesthesia, which I don't like because in the Netherlands I don't have any problems with it.
But do you know if there is a bigger MRI machine in Thailand.
Regards,
M.
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Dear M,
Look on Google for wide bore MRI. Then you will find hospitals with open and/or wider MRIs. 3 Tesla gives better quality than less, but that is not always important. Certainly not with muscles etc.
Sincerely,
Dr. Maarten
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