Neural Conduction Velocities in the Lower Extremity in Patients with Raynaud's Phenomenon

Neural What? in the Lower What? in Patients with WHAT?!?!?!

Ok, lemme explain. First, this was the title of the Master's Research Project that I did with 3 of my classmates, Nick, Bryan, and Gary. That's us here the day we presented to our classmates and professors.


 

Thats Bryan in the blue shirt, Gary behind me, and Nick on my other side. I hope they wont mind me posting them on the net but with the good news I'm about to spill to the universe I don't think they'll care. :) Good guys, I really enjoyed working with them on this project.

Anyway so what in the world did we study?

"Neural Conduction Velocities in the Lower Extremity in Patients with Raynaud's Phenomenon"

Ok, so let's pick the title apart in English, not PTese. The body has nerves, nerves "run on electricity" so to speak. So a Neural Conduction Velocity is how fast a signal or current runs along a nerve. So we studied the speed of the nerve currents in the leg in patients with Raynauds Phenomenon. Rauynaud's Pnenomenon is a disorder that affects the extremities, hands feet, (fingers and toes), also ears and nose. What happens is the blood vessels go into spasm when lets say the hand is exposed to a change in temperature, usually cold, and blood cant get to the fingers. The hands turn white as the blood leaves, blue because not enough oxygen is getting to them, and then red when blood flow returns. And this is a painful thing. There are 2 types of Raynaud's Phenomenon. Type1 is when it happens for no known reason, and Type 2 is when it happens as a result of another disorder.

So basically we studied how Raynaud's affects the speed of the nerves in the legs. We tested the speed of the nerves with electrodes in patients with type 1 and 2 Raynaud's Phenomenon, and normal people. And we found that Raynaud's affects the nerves. It slows down the speed of the nerves in the leg, but not all of them only 2 of them, and not with both types of Raynaud"s. And there is some clinical significance, and some chicken and egg theories, but I won't get into all of the details here.

Because.....

Why am I babbling about this here? Well Nick called me yesterday. We had submitted the paper to the NY PT Association (NYPTA) and it was accepted for a poster presentation at the NYPTA Conference in October, and THEN it can probably be published. So you can just come to the conference or read out article and find out the details that way!!!

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Ok I think we know that I'm excited. But this is EXCITING!!!

Unfortunately, I'll be on vacation in San Francisco the weekend of the conference, so I won't be able to present, but its SO EXCITING!!! We worked SO HARD on the project and it's SO EXCITING to see the benefits, to be accepted to present, and to meabe be published! I'm so happy!!!! YAY FOR GARY AND BRYAN AND NICK AND ME!!!!!

WHOO HOOOOOO!!!

Ok well thats my good news for the day. Hope yours is going as well!!!