Chanel Davidoff, DO

When I have a new fellow or resident in our peripheral nerve clinic, I always teach them the importance of defining the neuropathy clinical syndrome. NCS/EMG are valuable, but the neurological exam is the most important (as it should be in neurology but many have forgotten). This is the neuropathy clinical phenotype classification I find the most helpful: - Isolated small fiber neuropathy - Length-dependent peripheral neuropathy (or distal symmetric polyneuropathy) - Multiple mononeuropathies - Mononeuropathy - Asymmetric neuropathy - Polyradiculoneuropathy - Plexopathy (brachial or lumbosacral, many times a radiculoplexus neuropathy) - Sensory neuronopathy - Motor neuronopathy I always tell my trainees they don’t have to memorize the causes of each phenotype. If you define the syndrome correctly, you can ask Google or ChatGtp what are the most likely causes. 😊 Definitions 👇👇👇 #NeuropathyBites 1/x