Takeaway
A multimodal phenotyping approach, using both imaging and somatosensory testing, is needed to fully understand lesions within somatosensory pathways.
Why this matters ?
The cervical myelopathy clinical phenotype is often disassociated from the structural damage seen in spinal cord imaging, presenting a structure-function paradox.
Results from this study indicate that a multimodal phenotyping approach may be needed to determine myelopathic progression.