Myelopathy (my-eh-LOP-uh-thee) is injury to the spinal cord, most often from compression caused by trauma, narrowing of the spinal canal, disc problems, or degenerative disease. It can produce pain, numbness, and weakness in the arms, legs, hands, or feet. Myelopathy matters in the CMT vocabulary mainly by contrast: CMT is a disease of the peripheral nervous system, the nerves beyond the spinal cord, not of the cord itself.
When Medicine Lost Its Compass
Evidence failed not because it was wrong, but because it was weaponized. I lived the downstream effects of that failure for more than a decade. This is what happens when medicine forgets that data always ends in a human being.
