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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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Palpation of the Median Nerve

You can reliably palpate nerves in the upper and lower limb. If your nail bed goes white, that's a very soft, non-nautious stress. I would use as a guide a pressure-wydian thumb so that the nail bed went white. It's something that shouldn't be painful if it is a bit abnormal. The nerve is abnormally sensitive to gentle pressure. That tells you that you've got abnormal sensitivity to preliminary pinching.

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