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Jacobs BL, Logical Application Of Cutaneous Pinprick Sensibility As A Screening Device For Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: Overlooked, Undervalued And Critical In Redefining A Clinically Significant Threshold For Protective Sensation February 2023, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15180.59520
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Proposal for The Demonstration of an Analogue Scale to Quantify Deficit and Refine The Identification of a Protective Sensory Threshold to Pinprick in Patients With Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy in the Rapid Primary Care Setting. Jacobs BL 2016 Research Proposal DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13225.19049
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Refined diagnosis of diabetic peripheral neuropathy with enhanced pinprick perception using novel single-use precision instrument design and technique . Jacobs B, Lewis D. Presented at the Global Diabetic Foot Conference. March 23, 2006, Los Angeles, USA.
Cutaneous Pinprick Sensibility As A Screening Device – Part 1. This method is overlooked, undervalued and critical in redefining a clinically significant threshold for protective sensation. Jacobs B. (2006) Diabetic Microvascular Complications Today May/June 2006 pp 31-33.
Cutaneous Pinprick Sensibility As A Screening Device – Part 2: Enhanced Diagnosis Of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Using Refined Technique And Dedicated Single-Use Precision Technology. Jacobs B. (2006) Diabetic Microvascular Complications Today July/August 2006 pp 33-36.
Value of pinprick in finding peripheral neuropathy in diabetes mellitus patients. Jacobs B, Lewis D. Presented at the World Family Doctor Association, WONCA Europe Regional Conference. June 18-21, 2003. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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