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Table 3 Correlation between precuneus GMV and total FoP (fear of pain) score in DCM patients, preoperative axial pain (PAP), no preoperative axial pain (nPAP) and healthy controls

From: Brain structural correlates of postoperative axial pain in degenerative cervical myelopathy patients following posterior cervical decompression surgery: a voxel-based morphometry study

Precuneus GMV

R value

P value

In all DCM patients

-0.23

0.06

PAP

-0.28

0.12

nPAP

-0.08

0.65

Healthy controls

0.07

0.68

  1. DCM: degenerative cervical myelopathy