Spine
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Case report of severe scoliosis and associated pelvic obliquity in a 14-year-old patient with cerebral palsy. ⋯ It is concluded that scoliosis with associated severe pelvic obliquity deformities can be treated with anterior and posterior spinal fusion and instrumentation with intraoperative halo-femoral traction in the properly selected and prepared patient with cerebral palsy.
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A lumbar radiculopathy model investigated pain behavioral responses after nerve root reinjury. ⋯ The bilateral responses support central modulation of radicular pain after nerve root injury. An exaggerated and more prolonged response bilaterally after reinjury suggests central sensitization after initial injury. Neuroinflammatory activation in the spinal cord further supports the hypothesis that central neuroinflammation plays an important role in chronic radicular pain.