The majority of the research and publishing that has been done in the area of peripheral nerve entrapment has been done by A. Lee Dellon, M.D.. Dr. Dellon is a professor of Plastic and Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As Dr. Dellon was studying this problem, he realized that there needed to be a different method of testing the peripheral nerves. He found that the traditional EMG or Nerve Conduction Study was often not accurate and did not measure the "health" of the nerve. As a result, he developed the PRESSURE SPECIFIED SENSORY DEVICE (PSSD).

Over time, this device has proven to be the most accurate and reliable method of testing peripheral sensory deficits. The reason that this is such a dramatic improvement over the EMG is that it can quantify and record both the specific peripheral nerve threshold levels and peripheral nerve innervation density. This then is a measure of axonal degeneration.

THIS TEST IS PAIN FREE AND DOES NOT INVOLVE NEEDLES.

THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION HAS RECOMMENDED THAT EVERY DIABETIC HAVE THEIR SENSATION TESTED EVERY YEAR AND IN THOSE WITH LOSS OF SENSATION, EVERY SIX MONTHS.

VASCULAR TESTING:

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is also one of the leading causes of lower extremity amputations. There are many who have this disease and do not know it until it is too late.

If you have any of the following symptoms or signs, you should be tested:

• Cramping in your legs and feet after walking a short distance. This is improved with rest.
• Loss of hair growth on the legs and feet.
• Sores on the legs and feet that do not heal.
• A constant coldness in the legs and feet.
• Discoloration in the toes (sometimes the tips of the toes will have black spots)

In our NEUROVASCULAR TESTING LAB we offer the latest in computerized vascular testing through the PAD Network. The test takes just a few minutes and is painless.