Cervical Spondylosis 'Delayed' Symptoms. How C/S Symptoms manifest themselves.

[bikelet]

The only exceptions to this are the brain, which isn’t served by the nervous system, and the nerves themselves, which don’t have other nerves dedicated to warning of any threats to the nervous system. Each nerve is dedicated to a particular area, and it’s sole purpose is to report on that area. It is not capable of reporting an injury to itself, because it would need a separate independently functioning nerve to do this, and it doesn’t have one.

This is not entirely true. Nerves have the nervi nervorum- which refers to nerves which occur in the outside connective tissue of the main nerve which have the sole role of monitoring and protecting the main nerve. The nervi nervorum can report nerve pain itself.

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[gerry the neck]

Hi bikelet

Thanks for this, and the link. I was unaware of these nervi nervorum. They might just be a key to something I've always wondered about i.e. How is it that, with no pain registering at the point of compression, there must still be some sort of signal generated to kickstart muscular protective reactions. Actual nerve compression symptoms are kind of self evident, but the source of, or catalyst for, muscular reactions in the neck area is still a bit of a mystery. That also raises the question...Are they capable of, as yet, undetectable painfree signalling, something like the symptom free shock effect after a serious trauma. I'll have to look into this more thoroughly !
Hopefully, the rest of my speculations passed your scrutiny ok.

[bikelet]

Hi Gerry, it is very interested to think about. Don't worry about my scrunity, I am no expert, still learning and working things out just like you. I was just aware that anatomically what you had written wasn't 100% accurate, and now reflecting on the implications of that raises a load of questions! I think it makes sense that it would be involved in nerve compression episodes as you say...I'm not sure what your last question meant about painfree signalling