Somato sensory testing

Question 1

Myelopathy

Answer 1

Spinal cord lesion

Question 2

Radiculopathy

Answer 2

Nerve root lesion

Question 3

Neuropathy

Answer 3

Peripheral nerve lesion

Question 4

The somatosensory exam has 4 primary components. What are they?

Answer 4

Light touch/ tactile
Pain
Vibration/ pallesthesia
Position/proprioception

Question 5

What are three things that come to mind involving crude touch and the somatosensory exam?

Answer 5

Light touch
Touch awareness
Anterior spinothalamic tract

Question 6

What are three things that come to mind involving fine touch and the somatosensory exam?

Answer 6

Light touch
Discriminative
Posterior colomns

Question 7

what comes to mind with the word esthesia?

Answer 7

Perception of sensation
Paresthesia
Dysesthesia
Allodynia
Hypesthesia (touch)
Hyperesthesia (touch)
Anesthesia (touch)

Question 8

Paresthesia

Answer 8

Odd sensation: Sense of pins/needles, tingling, itching,…
Sensations do not need exam to provoke
(Symptoms from patient Hx)

Question 9

T/F

Esthesia sense are different from pain sense.

Answer 9

T

Question 10

What is the term for, distorted unpleasant sensations perceived in response to normally non-noxious stimuli?

Answer 10

Dysesthesia

Question 11

What is the term for nonnoxious stimuli that is perceived as painful?

Answer 11

Allodynia

Question 12

Hyperesthesia

Answer 12

An increased sensitivity to touch sensation

Question 13

Anesthesia

Answer 13

Absence of touch sensation