The following is from: “Spinal Cord Injury and the Family: A New Guide” by Michelle J. Alpert, M. D. and Saul Wisnia.
“In the 1980s another procedure, the dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) ablation , was recommended for treating severe spinal cord injury pain, since it essentially destroyed the nerve cells that were thought to be the source of painful sensory information within the spinal cord. It, too, eventually fell out of favor when complications such as increased weakness and new sensory loss were noted.”
More on the subject at: Battling Pain - The Drez Procedure
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