Question

As they were examining joe in the er, joe was poked with a pin in a sequential pattern from his chest down to his abdomen. joe could feel the pinpricks until just inferior to his navel, but then nothing below that. what root into the spinal cord is this sensory information traveling through?

Answer 1

It is most likely the ventral ramus into the dorsal root ganglion. A spine nerve arises from the spine cord as branch-like structures which converge to form the ventral or dorsal root. This is the pathway for the motor and sensory neuron.