Arm pain related to back problems?

[gifa_girl]

My husband has constant pain down his arms - it is not tendonitis. He has had it for several years now and done all sorts of treatments - injections of blood into his arms, cortizone into his arms, chinese remedies, massage for his back, chiro. Nothing shows up on arm xrays or ultrasounds. He has now had a back xray done and they believe that 3 or 5 of his vertebrae were fractured and healed together wrong, causing pain up into his neck and down his arms. Where does he go from here? He doesn't want any surgery, what are any of the options.

[gifa_girl]

The fracture is in his back. He doesn't remember any specific incident to cause the pain. It started in one arm and then went to the other arm as well.

[Kalvin]

An MRI would be the next step, are the vertebra that are fractured in his neck or in his back? The reason I ask is because the nerves that go into the arms originate in the neck?

Was he in some kind of accident, does he have back pain?