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What's the Best Tool to Assess Neuropathic Pain?
Torki: We use a tool called the Lands Scale. It's developed by a doctor in Lease to help to screen for neuropathic pain. If you've got these unusual features in your arm or leg, you've got burning, shooting, stabbing, electrical pain into your leg. So that's why we would look for that first of all. Even if the lens is negative, the next thing I would look for would be any conduction block. For those groups, I think we can do something in terms of manual therapy and exercise. And there seems to be some evidence that we can. The nervous system seems to be mechanosensitive with some techniques to help to desens