Sally Lawson Quotations

We really followed our noses. No one was examining this problem of spontaneous pain.

The cause of this ongoing pain and why it arises spontaneously was not understood before. Now that we know the type of nerve fibers involved, and especially that it is the undamaged nerve fibers that cause this pain, we can examine them to find out what causes them to continually send impulses to the brain. This should help in the search for new analgesics that are effective for controlling ongoing pain.

Further work is also needed to determine how the increased firing in the uninjured fine fibers could be prevented in order to alleviate the ongoing pain.

It's really a problem if people can't function and can't go to work. They're in dreadful pain, their families suffer, and their workplace suffers as well.