Nerve root compression produces chronic pain and altered spinal neuropeptide expression.
This study utilized controlled transient loading in a rat model of painful cervical nerve root …

Study Design. An in vivo rat model of transient cervical nerve root compression. Objectives.
To investigate the potential for cervical nerve root compression to produce behavioral …

Rapid neck motions can load cervical nerve roots and produce persistent pain. This study
investigated the cellular basis of radicular pain and mechanical implications of tissue …

Study Design. Behavioral and immunohistochemical analysis in rat models of persistent and
transient allodynia. Objectives. To examine separate cervical nerve root injuries …

Both traumatic and slow-onset disc herniation can directly compress and/or chemically
irritate cervical nerve roots, and both types of root injury elicit pain in animal models of …

Relationships between nerve root compression, behavioral sensitivity, spinal cytokines, and
glial reactivity are not fully defined for painful cervical nerve root compression. Spinal …

Nerve root compression induces persistent behavioral hypersensitivity and spinal glial
reactivity. Viscoelastic properties of neural tissues suggest that physiologic outcomes may …

Cervical nerve roots are susceptible to compression injuries of various durations. The
duration of an applied compression has been shown to contribute to both the onset of …

Clinical and experimental work indicate that a variety of factors contribute to radicular pain
mechanisms, including mechanical injury. While it has been qualitatively suggested that the …

There is much evidence supporting the hypothesis that magnitude of nerve root mechanical
injury affects the nature of the physiological responses which can contribute to pain in …