Testing Sensibility, Including Touch-Pressure, Two-point Discrimination, Point Localization, and Vibration

Journal of Hand Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 114-123

  Bell Krotoski, Judith ^a   Weinstein, Sidney ^b   Weinstein, Curt ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NeuroCommunication Res Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAND; HUMAN; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HAND; HUMANS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SENSATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0027587426     PISSN: 08941130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-1130(12)80292-4     Document Type: Article

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