A touch pressure sensory assessment of the surgical treatment of the tarsal tunnel syndrome

Foot and Ankle Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 266-269

  Gondring, William H ^a   Shields, Byron ^a  

^a Heartland Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Foot; Nerve entrapment; Peripheral neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE SENSATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY ANALYSIS; TARSAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; TIBIAL NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TARSAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455192594     PISSN: 12687731     EISSN: 14609584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fas.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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