Equipment Required for Somatosensory Tests and Measures
While a variety of equipment can be used to examine somatosensation, equipment that is typically required is listed below. Hold the mouse pointer over the camera icons to view unfamiliar items.
- Large safety pin or paper clip (disposed or sterilized after each use), wooden tongue depressor, or single-use neurological pin
- Two test tubes of equal size with stoppers or two metal temperature probes
- Cotton ball, camel hair brush, or facial tissue
- Tuning fork
- Two identical sets of commonly used objects (i.e. paper clip, key, coin, toothbrush, cotton ball)
- Blunt probe or pencil with eraser
- Two-point discrimination aesthesiometer
- Weight set designed for discrimination testing
- Monofilament set (actual and enlarged facsimile of a monofilament pictured)
- Sensory Integration and Praxis Test. The following are examples of somatosensory tests appropriate for pediatric patients:
- Manual form perception subtest
- Kinesthesia subtest
- Finger identification subtest
- Graphesthesia subtest
- Localization of tactile stimuli subtest
- Tape measure or clear flexible ruler
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