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The Thermal Sensitivity Test in Evaluating Outcome after Peripheral Nerve Injury
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability to discriminate temperatures in patients following peripheral nerve injury. Knowing that temperature sensibility is mediated by different receptors, the scores were compared to other functional hand scores in order to determine whether the abilit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26199942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/528356 |
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author | Ceynowa, Marcin Mazurek, Tomasz Pankowski, Rafał Rocławski, Marek Treder, Mariusz |
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description | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability to discriminate temperatures in patients following peripheral nerve injury. Knowing that temperature sensibility is mediated by different receptors, the scores were compared to other functional hand scores in order to determine whether the ability to discriminate temperatures is restored to a different extent compared with other commonly evaluated hand function modalities. The test was performed using the NTE-2 device (Physitemp Instruments Inc., 154 Huron Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey, USA). Out of 57 patients, 27 had normal thermal discrimination scores, and 9 could not tell the temperatures apart in the differences set on the measuring device. Overall, patients with better thermal discrimination had also better hand function as evaluated with different methods. However, some patients who did regain the ability to differentiate temperatures correctly did not have any measurable return of hand function in other tests. Thermal discrimination scores correlated similarly with different functional scores, except for vibration sensibility, which did not show any significant correlation. The development and severity of cold intolerance seem to be unrelated to temperature sense. |
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spelling | pubmed-44932712015-07-21 The Thermal Sensitivity Test in Evaluating Outcome after Peripheral Nerve Injury Ceynowa, Marcin Mazurek, Tomasz Pankowski, Rafał Rocławski, Marek Treder, Mariusz Biomed Res Int Research Article The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability to discriminate temperatures in patients following peripheral nerve injury. Knowing that temperature sensibility is mediated by different receptors, the scores were compared to other functional hand scores in order to determine whether the ability to discriminate temperatures is restored to a different extent compared with other commonly evaluated hand function modalities. The test was performed using the NTE-2 device (Physitemp Instruments Inc., 154 Huron Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey, USA). Out of 57 patients, 27 had normal thermal discrimination scores, and 9 could not tell the temperatures apart in the differences set on the measuring device. Overall, patients with better thermal discrimination had also better hand function as evaluated with different methods. However, some patients who did regain the ability to differentiate temperatures correctly did not have any measurable return of hand function in other tests. Thermal discrimination scores correlated similarly with different functional scores, except for vibration sensibility, which did not show any significant correlation. The development and severity of cold intolerance seem to be unrelated to temperature sense. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4493271/ /pubmed/26199942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/528356 Text en Copyright © 2015 Marcin Ceynowa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ceynowa, Marcin Mazurek, Tomasz Pankowski, Rafał Rocławski, Marek Treder, Mariusz The Thermal Sensitivity Test in Evaluating Outcome after Peripheral Nerve Injury |
title | The Thermal Sensitivity Test in Evaluating Outcome after Peripheral Nerve Injury |
title_full | The Thermal Sensitivity Test in Evaluating Outcome after Peripheral Nerve Injury |
title_fullStr | The Thermal Sensitivity Test in Evaluating Outcome after Peripheral Nerve Injury |
title_full_unstemmed | The Thermal Sensitivity Test in Evaluating Outcome after Peripheral Nerve Injury |
title_short | The Thermal Sensitivity Test in Evaluating Outcome after Peripheral Nerve Injury |
title_sort | thermal sensitivity test in evaluating outcome after peripheral nerve injury |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26199942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/528356 |
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