A calibrated paper clip is a reliable measure of two-point discrimination

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 710-714

  Finnell, John T ^a,b   Knopp, Robert ^a   Johnson, Phelps ^a   Holland, Patrick C ^a   Schubert, Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Hand injuries physiopathology; Hand innervation; Reproducibility of results; Sensation disorders; Sensory thresholds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DEVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FINGER; HAND; HAND INJURY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT; NERVE INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SURGEON;

EID: 2942618998     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.11.022     Document Type: Article

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