David Darrow @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Some mail you never forget opening. Thank you NIH, NINDS + the HEAL Initiative for funding SENAP: a trial for central neuropathic pain: pain generated by the brain itself after stroke, MS, or spinal cord injury. We finally know where it lives. Now we get to go there. 🧠 241
David Darrow @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Pain prevention may start when the nerve is cut. In 32 tumor amputations, RPNI was associated with less 12-week pain (25% vs 68.8%) and no phantom limb pain (0% vs 43.8%). Lin, Chen, Zang, Wang & Li @pku1898.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1227/ons.... 010
David Darrow @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026After the recent navigation paper, a classic from Neurosurgery: in 1,216 patients with TN, pain-free survival after one RF rhizotomy was 57.7% at 5 years. The curve captures both durable benefit and the reality of recurrence. #trigeminalneuralgia doi.org/10.1097/0000... 010
David Darrow @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026New case report published on trigeminal ganglion stimulation for refractory anesthesia dolorosa. Rather than a binary “complete anesthesia + pain,” clinical nuance suggests a spectrum of deafferentation. 100
David Darrow @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Thank you to @u2fp.bsky.social for the invitation to talk about the future of #neuromodulation for #spinalcordinjury So many good speakers and great ideas 142
David Darrow @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social · 22/03/2025We bid farewell to our amazing postdoc @xinyuanyan.bsky.social and congratulations on her new position with @benhayden.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social 072
David Darrow @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Congratulations to our new #neurosurgery interns at the #universityofminnesota ! 010