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This video explains small fibre painful peripheral neuropathy, it's symptoms, causes, diagnostic tests and treatments. If you found this useful, please support this channel by clicking Subscribe and giving me a thumbs up!
Amongst the causes discussed are DIabetes, Pre-diabetes, Alcohol neuropathy, B12 deficiency and Thyroid dysfunction as well as rarer causes such as GBS, Coeliac and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, SLE, Sjorgens, Fabry’s Disease, Hepatitis, Amyloid, HIV, Paraneoplastic Syndromes and Hereditary Sodium Channel dysfunctions.
DIagnostic tests discussed and demonstrated include: Thermal Thresholds, Sympathetic Sweat Responses, Cutaneous Silent Period, Laser Evoked Potentials, Contact Heat Evoked Potentials (image from Medoc Ltd, www.medoc-web.com), Laser Doppler Flare also known as Axon Flare (image from Moor Instruments, gb.moor.co.uk/), Micro-neurography, QSART and Skin biopsy.
Treatments discussed follow the UK's NICE guidelines 2013 for non-specialists and can be found by clicking this link:
www.nice.org.u...
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