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When after knee op can i get mri?
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Soon.: Yyu should be able to get a knee MRI anytime after your knee surgery, unless any metal hardware was placed into your knee. Check with the surgeon that did your knee operation, to make sure it's ok to get an mri.
Answered 6/10/2014
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Recommendations: To be on the safe side, I recommend no MRI near or at the joint with surgery for at least 6 weeks. A brain or cervical spine MRI is usually ok at any time after surgery. However, the knee is healing with a metal/bone interface, and MRI increase the temperature of your body by at least one degree overall, and more at the scan site. You can injure the healing bone interface, and get poor results.
Answered 1/3/2018
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