Touch pressure and sensory density after tarsal tunnel release in diabetic neuropathy
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"Touch pressure and sensory density ..." refers background in this paper
...Nonhealing neuropathic ulcers precede amputation in 84% of lower extremity amputations in diabetic patients [6], and 11–41% of diabetic patients die within 1 year of a lower extremity amputation [1]....
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"Touch pressure and sensory density ..." refers background or methods in this paper
...the assessment of sensory threshold for protective sensation using Semmes–Weinstein monofilaments (evaluating 1-point touch pressure sensory threshold of large fiber myelinated nerve endings) and does not include 2-point discrimination testing for sensory density of small fiber unmyelinated nerve endings [4]....
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...001 compressive neuropathy, such as entrapment or compression of the posterior tibial nerve at the tarsal tunnel, resulting in secondary neuronal edema, inflammatory injury, and symptoms of diabetic neuropathy [4,9,10]....
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...diabetic patients who have a plantar sensory deficit [4]....
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...Neuropathic symptoms affect 30–40% of patients with diabetes [4,5]....
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