Departments of *Anesthesiology
∥Orthopedic Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital
†Danish Pain Research Center, University of Aarhus, Denmark
‡Department of Neurology and Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven
§Rehabilitation Research Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT
Supported in part by grants from the Medical Research and Rehabilitation Research Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (S.G.W.), The Erythromelagia Association, Wallingford, PA (S.G.W.), and by the Lundbeck Foundation Copenhagen, Denmark and the Danish Research Council Copenhagen, Denmark (L.N./T.S.J.). The Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research is a collaboration of the Paralyzed Veterans of America and the United Spinal Association with Yale University. The authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest with respect to any of the work presented in this manuscript.
Reprints: Stephen G. Waxman, MD, PhD, Neuroscience Research Center (Building 34), Veterans Administration Connecticut, 127A, 950 Campbell Avenue, West Haven, CT 06517 (e-mail: [email protected]).
Received for publication February 9, 2010; revised April 29, 2010; accepted June 3, 2010
