• Schimp DJ

• Leg / physiopathology
• Low Back Pain / complications
• Neurologic Examination / methods
• Pain / diagnosis
• Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / diagnosis
• Radiculopathy / diagnosis
• Vascular Diseases / diagnosis

In the third and last in Dr. Schimp's series on worrisome legs, he presents a step-by-step approach to the diagnosis of polyneuropathy, peripheral nerve entrapments, and some of their confounding mimics.

Lower-back pain is usually benign and self-limiting, but this may not be true in patients with concomitant lower-extremity symptoms. A strong determinant of disability associated with lower-back pain is the presence of a symptomatic leg.1 Part 1 presented an evidence-based algorithm to provide clinicians with a systematic, data-driven approach for the diagnostic work-up of worrisome leg symptoms that are vascular in origin. Part 2 presented a practical approach to leg pain of neuropathic radicular origin. Part 3 presents a step-by-step approach to the diagnosis of polyneuropathy, peripheral nerve entrapments, and some of their confounding mimics.

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