Barry Corbet

This is an excerpt from a 1995 collection of stories on pain and spinal cord injury by New Mobility’s former editor, Barry Corbet. In that collection, Corbet also wrote about a newer option to relieve neuropathic pain, called Dorsal Root Entry Zone (DREZ) surgery. You can read Bob Vogel’s update, which outlines Corbet’s reporting on DREZ and shares how DREZ has advanced over the past 30 years. Imagine the largest vessel you can carry. It’s full of water and you’re carrying it across a room.

Barry Corbet, who survived a 1968 helicopter crash with a T12/L1 spinal cord injury, edited New Mobility magazine from 1991 to 2000. A widely published author and filmmaker, Corbet’s works include a trio of films, Changes, Outside and Survivors, and the book Options: Spinal Cord Injury and the Future.