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Ep 110: Nailing your neurological assessment, with Dr Annina Schmid

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Is It Sufficient to Just Have Mya-Time and Dermatome Charts Up on the Wall?

Anina, if I understand you correctly, it's not sufficient to simply have the mya-time and dermatome chat stuck up on the wall in the clinic. It's a little bit more detective work than that. Is it enough to compare to the opposite side? Or is there a better way to think about quantifying the extent of the problem? When we do a traditional screen, we would usually screen say the left arm compared to the right arm. That is an optimal scenario if a patient has symptoms only on one side. Quite often people tend to have bilateral problems.

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