Clinical and Electrodiagnostic Features of Sciatic Neuropathies

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-120

  Distad, B Jane ^a   Weiss, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Common fibular division; Electrodiagnostic testing; Sciatic neuropathy; Tibial division

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; LIDOCAINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; PREGABALIN; STEROID;

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HIP; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERONEAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; THIGH; TRANSDERMAL PATCH; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULITIS;

BUTTOCKS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HIP; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; PROGNOSIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870037347     PISSN: 10479651     EISSN: 15581381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmr.2012.08.023     Document Type: Review

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