20 – Central nervous system reorganisation after spinal cord injury: its relationship to pain and response to mental imagery

Central nervous system reorganisation after spinal cord injury: its relationship to pain and response to mental imagery

Pain Research Institute Liverpool, Award: £76,100, Date of Award: 12 Mar 09

This is the full clinical trial. The results so far do seem to show that the brain does try to reorganise itself following spinal cord injury and for many who suffer from deafferentation (phantom) pain the mental therapy does give relief.