Neurological Assessment

Question 1

Pain felt at points remote from the lesion site

Answer 1

Referral Pain

Question 2

A form of referred pain; sharp, shooting pain felt in a dermatome, myotome, or sclerotome because of direct involvement of or damage to a spinal nerve or nerve root

Answer 2

Radicular or radiating pain

Question 3

Radiating paresthesia, numbness or weakness but not pain; arises from nerve root(s)

Answer 3

Radiculopathy

Question 4

Neurogenic disorder involving the spinal cord or brain, resulting in upper motor neuron lesion
- patterns of pain or symptoms different from that of radicular pain
- often both upper and lower limbs affected

Answer 4

Myelopathy

Question 5

Peripheral nerve injury, disease or dysfunction
- mononeuropathy involves a single peripheral nerve
- polyneuropathy involves more than one peripheral nerve

Answer 5

Neuropathy

Question 6

Compression or pathology at two or more points along a peripheral nerve or nerve root may lead to a cumulative effect that results in apparent signs and symptoms, while a problem at one point may not be sufficient to cause signs and symptoms

Answer 6

Double crush syndrome or double entrapment neuropathy