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Touch pressure and sensory density after tarsal tunnel release in diabetic neuropathy
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There was marked, significant postoperative improvement of mean touch pressure 1-point threshold, compared with preoperative values, for medial calcaneal, medial plantar, and lateral plantar nerves in both non-diabetic and diabetic patients.About:
This article is published in Foot and Ankle Surgery.The article was published on 2012-12-01. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tarsal tunnel & Diabetic neuropathy.read more
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The epidemiology of diabetic foot problems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used NHDS data for seven foot ulcer related conditions from 1983 to 1990 to illustrate trends in inpatient hospitalization, showing an overall increase of approximately 50% in the age standardized proportion of hospital discharges listing diabetes and lower extremity ulcers during this interval.
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Plantar and Medial Heel Pain: Diagnosis and Management
TL;DR: Although corticosteroid injections have a role in the management of select diagnoses, they should be used with caution.
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Value of surgical decompression of compressed nerves in the lower extremity in patients with painful diabetic neuropathy: a randomized controlled trial.
Joanne F.M. Macaré van Maurik,Mireille van Hal,Ruben P A van Eijk,Moshe Kon,Edgar J G Peters +4 more
TL;DR: Surgical decompression of the nerves of the lower extremity can be added as a therapeutic option for patients with painful diabetic neuropathy who show signs of chronic nerve compression by means of a positive Tinel or other diagnostic criteria, when pain medication fails to reduce pain to an acceptable standard.
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Optimization of Surgical Outcome in Lower Extremity Nerve Decompression Surgery.
TL;DR: The authors’ results suggest that the beneficial effects of lower extremity nerve decompression surgery are reserved for a select group of patients, of which preoperative nerve damage, age, duration of diabetes, and body mass index are important effect modifiers.
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Nerve decompression and neuropathy complications in diabetes: Are attitudes discordant with evidence?
TL;DR: This secondary compression thesis and operative treatment methodology may deserve reassessment in view of the potential for nerve decompression to be useful in addressing some of the more difficult, expensive, and life altering complications of diabetic neuropathy.
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The carpal tunnel syndrome: localization of conduction abnormalities within the distal segment of the median nerve.
TL;DR: The exclusion of the relatively normal distal latency made it possible to demonstrate mild slowing across the carpal tunnel in 36 (21Per cent) sensory and 40 (23 per cent) motor axons of 172 affected nerves when the conventional terminal latencies were normal.
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The carpal tunnel syndrome. A study of carpal canal pressures.
TL;DR: The authors measured intracarpal canal pressures with the wick catheter in fifteen patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and in twelve control subjects, finding that the mean pressure in the carpal canal was elevated significantly in the patients.
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The repeatability of testing with Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments
TL;DR: Results of this study show that if their lengths and diameters are correct, the Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments produce application forces that are repeatable within a predictable range.
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Effects of graded compression on intraneural blood flow: An in vivo study on rabbit tibial nerve
TL;DR: It is concluded that acute compression of nerve may cause persistent impairment of intraneural microcirculation due to mechanical injury to blood vessels.
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The epidemiology of diabetic foot problems.
TL;DR: The age-standardized proportion of hospital discharges listing diabetes and lower extremity ulcers showed that diabetic foot ulcer rates were consistently high and high rates were observed in patients ages 45-64 years while the lowest rates documented were in patients aged 044 years.
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