Peripheral Nerve Injuries — Diagnosis and Treatment

Abstract

NERVE suture is still a field of surgery in which results often fall short of goals. The difficulties in the evaluation of results have been elucidated by the methods for the examination of the regeneration of sensibility described by Moberg,^{1 , 2} who emphasizes the fact that evaluation should always be in terms of "functional recovery" and not "academic recovery."³ By academic recovery he means the kind of sensibility that is registered by needle and cotton-wool tests. These types of tests cannot differentiate paresthesia from useful sensibility. Paresthesia may under certain circumstances be regarded as an unuseful type of sensibility and should . . .