A dermatome is an area of skin supplied by a single spinal nerve. There are 31 pairs of spinal nerves, forming nerve roots that branch from your spinal cord, but only 30 dermatomes. Your spinal ...

Dermatomes are areas of skin, and each communicates with the brain via a single nerve. Here, find out more about the relationship between nerves and dermatomes.

Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal nerve root. Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine.

Control group Demographic characteristics. The control group consisted of 30 volunteers, 14 male and 16 female participants, mean age of 32 years (range 20–55), with no known neurological disorder.

Neuralgia is pain in one or more dermatomes due to irritation, entrapment or inflammation of a nerve or nerve root; The main clinical characteristics are stabbing, burning or shooting pain along the ...

Nerve conduction was normal in the dermatomes above and below the affected areas. We diagnosed a postherpetic pseudohernia. After three months, the bulge had improved but not resolved completely.

The 2011 revision of the International Standards for the Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury was published in the November 2011 Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. An accompanying ...