• Using the study guide

Introduction

• Introduction
• Mechanoreceptor types and functions
• Examination and evaluation of somatosensation
• Indications for the screening of somatosensation
• Strengths and limitations of examination procedures
• Equipment required for somatosensory examination
• Mental status
  
• Principles and rules of somatosensory examination
• Identifying and documenting sensory involvement
  

Tests and measures of somatosensation

• Tests and measures of somatosensation

Exteroception

• Examination procedure - Touch awareness (cotton ball)
• Video demonstration - Touch awareness (cotton ball)
• Examination procedure - Touch awareness (monofilament set)
• Video demonstration - Touch awareness (monofilament set)
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Touch localization

• Examination procedure - Touch localization (cotton ball)
  
• Video demonstration - Touch localization (cotton ball)
• Examination procedure - Touch localization (felt-tipped pen and tape measure)
  
• Video demonstration - Touch localization (felt-tipped pen and tape measure)
  
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Extinction

• Examination procedure - Extinction (simultaneous double touch)
  
• Video demonstration - Extinction (simultaneous double touch)
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Pressure

• Examination procedure - Pressure
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Two-point discrimination

• Examination procedure - Two-point discrimination
  
• Video demonstration - Two-point discrimination
  
• Clinical notes and interpretation

• Examination procedure - Sharp/dull (pain perception)
  
• Video demonstration - Sharp/dull (pain perception)
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Temperature

• Examination procedure - Temperature
  
• Video demonstration - Temperature
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Vibration

• Examination procedure - Vibration
• Video demonstration - Vibration
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Joint position sense

• Examination procedure - Joint position sense
• Examination procedure - Special instructions
  
• Video demonstration - Joint position sense
  
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Joint motion

• Examination procedure - Joint movement sense
• Video demonstration - Joint movement sense
• Examination procedure - Special instructions
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Stereognosis

• Examination procedure - Stereognosis
  
• Video demonstration - Stereognosis
• Video demonstration - (point to object)
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Graphesthesia

• Examination procedure - Graphesthesia
• Video demonstration - Graphesthesia
• Video demonstration - Graphesthesia (point to object)
  
• Clinical notes and interpretation

Module pages

• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Glossary of terms start page
• Help
• Preface
• Resources
• WSU Department of Health Care Sciences Legal Notices