Gestural Interaction and Visual Illusion for Lower Limbs' Neuropathic Pain Treatment.

Pain caused by a lesion or a disease affecting the somatosensory nervous system is known as Neuropathic pain. It has been shown that neuropathic pain can be treated with the combination of simultaneous transcranial direct current stimulation and the generation of the visual illusion that the patient retains control of the affected limbs. For persons with neuropathic pain in the lower limbs, the visual illusion consists of an image of the patient walking normally.

Depression in Individuals With Traumatic and Nontraumatic Spinal Cord Injury Living in the Community.

Objective: To assess depression in a sample of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) living in the community, and to determine the prevalence of probable major depressive disorder (PMDD) among those with traumatic spinal cord injury (T-SCI) and those with nontraumatic spinal cord injury (NT-SCI).

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: Data were collected on individuals with SCI now living in the community, who completed a comprehensive follow-up assessment at the hospital.

Sensory Symptom Profiles of Patients With Neuropathic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury.

Aim: Individuals experiencing neuropathic pain (NP) after spinal cord injury (SCI) present with a variety of pain descriptors in different combinations and at different intensities. These sensory features form distinct patterns, known as sensory symptom profiles.

Methods: In the present cross-sectional study, we have used a multivariate statistical method (multiple correspondence analysis) to categorize the sensory symptom profiles of a cohort of 338 patients with at-level or below-level NP after SCI.