He fell again a few days later and returned with a second confirmed spinal fracture requiring cervical fusion.
The patients represent a convenience sample taken from a population of patients who had received either a spinal cord stimulator or an implantable pain pump.
These data indicate that anesthetic action in the spinal cord indirectly suppresses ascending transmission of somatosensory information, thereby altering the 'arousal' level of the brain.
Other brainstem neurons (not shown) send descending projections to the spinal cord to influence muscle tone and activity across the sleep-wake cycle.
It is reported that previous models had been based on neurons in the spinal cord, which were too mechanically similar to computers.
Similarly, the nerve injury-induced proinflammatory gene expression in the spinal cord is also reduced in the toll-like receptor 2 knockout mice.
The nerve injury-induced spinal cord microglia and astrocyte activation is reduced in the toll-like receptor 2 knockout mice.
As mentioned, one patient in this series underwent five surgical excisions of the primary and recurrent spinal cord tumours.
