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Nerve Testing - Detecting Upper Extremity Peripheral Neuropathic Pain

1. Peripheral neuropathic pain is pain that arises as a direct result of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory component of the peripheral nervous system.

A. True

B. False


2. Elbow extension, shoulder internal rotation, forearm pronation, and wrist/finger flexion are joint movements included in which of the following ULNTs:

A. ULNT1 Median

B. ULNT Radial

C. ULNT Ulnar

D. None of the above


3. The combination of wrist/finger extension, forearm pronation, elbow flexion, shoulder external rotation, shoulder girdle depression, and shoulder abduction compresses which of the following?

A. The deep branch of the radial nerve in the radial tunnel

B. Median nerve in the carpal tunnel

C. Ulnar nerve in the cubital tunnel

D. All of the above


4. There are common areas where even asymptomatic individuals report sensory responses at the end of upper-limb neurodynamic testing.

A. True

B. False


5. Current evidence supports measuring resistance to movement and asymmetries in range of motion testing as a measure to decide whether a patient's ULNT is positive.

A. True

B. False


6. At this time, the suggested criteria for a positive ULNT are:

A. At least partial reproduction of the patient's symptoms

B. A change in these symptoms with structural differentiation

C. Both A and B

D. None of the above


7. Increased mechanosensitivity is related to increased excitability of which of the following?

A. Small-diameter afferents

B. Central nervous system pathways

C. Nociceptors in the nervi nervorum and sinu-vertebral nerves

D. All of the above


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