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...pain signal from the stubbing of the toe travels as an electrochemical impulse along the length of the nerve to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, a region that runs the length of the spine and receives signals from all over the body. In a tall person, the distance from toe to dorsal horn may be more than one meter, and it can take about two seconds for the message to arrive. From there, it is relayed in a bewildering flurry of chemical messages to the brain, first to the thalamus, where sensations like heat, cold, pain and touch...
...weakness. Before Maureen Brennan, 37, of Helena, Mont., arrived at the Seattle pain clinic for treatment of her back problem, she was confined to a wheelchair and was spending $180 a week on narcotics, sleeping pills and antidepressants. An accident four years earlier had ruptured five discs in her spine. Seven operations had failed to relieve the pain, and her weight had dropped from 160 lbs. to 81. After Seattle's three-week program of intensive physical therapy and psychological counseling (at a cost of about $10,000), Brennan was walking briskly down the hallways. "I have the same...
...particularly painful because of the sensitive nerves in or near these organs. In the vast majority of cases, cancer pain can be alleviated with drug therapy, including narcotics like morphine or methadone. These may be administered by mouth, by injection into the muscle or directly into the spine via surgically implanted catheters. An implantable morphine pump that provides a continuous infusion of the drug is being tested for use by cancer patients. Unfortunately, patients may develop tolerance to narcotics, and their doctors often fail to provide high enough doses to keep pain...
...felt a painful slap on the back as a rifle bullet severed his spine. Then he felt nothing...
...converted into private schools, dormitories and offices, or divided into small apartments and rooming houses. Shops proliferated. In 1965 the clumsy 52-story-high Prudential Center rose incongruously on Boylston Street. It was followed by the 60-story mirror-glass John Hancock tower and other tall buildings. This "highrise spine," as planners call it, formed an impressive skyline but failed to mitigate the disaster on the ground: early in the 1960s, 9.5 acres of living, breathing, historic city right next to Copley Square was torn up to form a sunken tangle of railroad tracks and turnpike ramps. The gash also...