Bilateral Upper Extremity Peripheral Neuropathy

1 department of orthopedics university of california at los angeles ca 90095 usa. Strength testing was significant for symmetric resistance in bilateral upper extremities and weakness in the bilateral lower extremities that was most prominent distally. Bilateral neuropathy describes a number of nerve disorders that generally affect the hands and feet but can include other systems in the body as well.

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Bilateral upper extremity peripheral neuropathy. It leads to numbness loss of sensation and sometimes pain in your feet legs or hands. Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy usually begin gradually and include. Direct confrontational testing was limited because of limited cooperation but jc was able to give symmetric resistance with bilateral hip flexion. It can also affect other areas of your body.

Peripheral neuropathy a result of damage to the nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord peripheral nerves often causes weakness numbness and pain usually in your hands and feet. Causes of the neuropathy of the upper extremities the overwhelming majority of isolated degenerative and dystrophic changes in the nerve fibers of the hand occur as a result of banal squashing of one mononeuropathy or several nerves polyneuropathy innervating the upper limb. Peripheral neuropathy of the upper extremity. It is the most.

So we rate by analogy and the widely accepted analogous rating for peripheral neuropathy is neuritis of the the sciatic nerve dc 8620 click here to download a doc copy of the rating criteria as of march 28 2017 which is found at 38 cfr 4 124a. Medical comorbidity that confounds common orthopedic pathology. Bilateral upper extremity peripheral neuropathy. Diabetes mellitus type 2 diabetes herbicide exposure tdiu denied.

Like most medical conditions peripheral neuropathy does not have its own diagnostic code. Peripheral neuropathy is a disorder that occurs when these nerves malfunction because they re damaged or destroyed. The term bilateral means affecting both the left and right side of the body. Bales jg 1 meals r.

In medical literature bilateral neuropathy generally refers to a collection of symptoms affecting both left and right arms and hands or both left and right legs and feet. Neuropathy is a blanket term for any disease or disorder of the nervous system. In the orthopedic patient the diagnosis of a compression neuropathy may bestraightforward. Your peripheral nervous system sends information from your brain and spinal cord central nervous system to the rest of your body.

Ptsd granted reduction from 20 to 10 effective april 1 2017 proper. Peripheral neuropathy is nerve damage caused by chronically high blood sugar and diabetes. This disrupts the nerves normal functioning. A tingling sensation in the toes or in the balls of the feet that eventually spreads up the legs toward the trunk.