Numbness and Sensory Disturbance

Functional weakness and sensory disturbance.

In the diagnosis of functional weakness and sensory disturbance, positive physical signs are as important as absence of signs of disease. Motor signs, particularly Hoover's sign, are more reliable than sensory signs, but none should be used in isolation and must be interpreted in the overall context of the presentation. It should be borne in mind that a patient may have both a functional and an...

PHYSICAL SIGNS Functional weakness and sensory disturbance

In the diagnosis of functional weakness and sensory disturbance, positive physical signs are as important as absence of signs of disease. Motor signs, particularly Hoover’s sign, are more reliable than sensory signs, but none should be used in isolation and must be interpreted in the overall context of the presentation. It should be borne in mind that a patient may have both a functional and an...

Ischaemic and post-ischaemic numbness and paraesthesiae.

Isolated hemicape‐like sensory disturbance caused by a cortical infarction

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Evaluation of lip sensory disturbance using somatosensory evoked magnetic fields.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate lip sensory dysfunction in patients with inferior alveolar nerve injury by lip-stimulated somatosensory evoked fields (SEFs). METHODS SEFs were recorded following electrical lip stimulation in 6 patients with unilateral lip sensory disturbance and 10 healthy volunteers. Lip stimulation was applied non-invasively to each side of the lip with the same intensity using pin e...