Imagine one day you stub your toe and the pain that would usually go away after a day or so, just keeps getting worse. Then the pain spreads to your whole foot which turns red and starts to swell. After a while your whole lower leg gets involved, you are having trouble walking and you can't...

A 48 year old man, we'll call Hank, fell off a ladder and broke his back.  He suffered a complete spinal cord injury and had no feeling or movement from the waist down.  Doctors were able to get him in the operating room within 48 hours of his injury where they performed an experimental new surger...

The patient, “Harry”, was a 77 year old Korean War Veteran who suffered from both pain and numbness on the top and bottom of both his feet. This was caused by nerve damage he had gotten from multiple episodes of frostbite during the war. He had been treated unsuccessfully using physical therapy and a number of pain relieving drugs including ones specifically used for nerve pain.