Exploratory study on the ascending pain pathway in patients with chronic neck and shoulder pain based on combined brain and spinal cord diffusion tensor imaging.

Similarly, the CNSP group demonstrated higher mean MD values than the HCs, but these differences also did not reach statistical significance (left STT p = 0.147, right STT p = 0.216, both > 0.05); refer to Table 2 for further data. 3.3 Segmental analysis of FA and MD values in bilateral cervical spinothalamic tracts between groups FA analysis: Compared to the HCs group, the CNSP group showed a significant decrease in FA values in the left STT C2 segment ( p = 0.017), left STT C5 segment ( p = 0.012), right STT C1 segment ( p = 0.025) and right STT C2 segment ( p = 0.014), refer to Table 3 and Figures 3A , B for further data.

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