Entire neurological examination
The key to neurology is to be able to perform a neurological examination and more importantly being able to interpret the findings. The latter only requires a very basic understanding of neuroanatomy. The aim of this lecture is to give you the basic skills to perform and neurological examination, localise the lesion and establish a basic differential diagnoses and prognosis. Once a neurological localisation is achieved then the possible differential diagnoses and work-up are easily checked in a textbook.
A neurological examination is simply running through a checklist of “tests” (see example neurological examination sheet in appendix). If the result is abnormal then the animal must have disease of the part of the nervous system covered by that test. Therefore, the only difficult part is in understanding the significance of the test. Putting all the abnormalities together gives you the localisation. #vet #veterinarian #neurology #neurological_exam #canine
