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A new study suggests that the spinal cord can differentiate types of pain before the brain is even aware of the injury.
University of Manchester scientists have successfully pioneered a way to create functioning human spinal disks, aiming to ...
Patients are suing medical device makers for selling spinal cord stimulators to treat chronic back pain but allegedly triggered worsening pain and electric shocks. The complaints, however, will face a ...
"Then the spinal cord will relay it up to the thalamus deep ... one specific type of brain or spinal tissue found along the pain pathway. "And then we put them together, really put them in close ...
"Their pain pathways are in some respects different ... from the skin through the dorsal root ganglion to the spinal cord; a second set of neurons passes the signals from the spinal cord to ...
A woman who had a spinal cord stimulator implanted in 2020 is suing devicemaker Boston Scientific and the FDA over complications she experienced with the device. Dena Lawler received the Spectra ...
Scientists have recreated a pathway that senses pain ... cells in the skin "send that information all the way to the spinal cord," Pașca says. "Then the spinal cord will relay it up to the ...