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104. Peripheral nerve sensitisation & neural tissue pain disorders with Dr Toby Hall

Physio Edge podcast with David Pope

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Postural Evaluation - Is There a Compressive Disorder?

The patient might be waiting in the waiting room with their hand on top of the head. They've found that as a comfortable position, anything else that you might see when you're looking observation-wise? I think observation-wise, the movement is very important, but postural evaluation sometimes can give you very little information unless they're really severe. If we then look at the movements that provoke the symptoms involving compression, and then if the patient is shifted towards the leg pain, then maybe we should think about a sensitization problem. It could be that those further tests show nothing, but it gives you a starting point of where to start.

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