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Self Care - Home Diabetes Test - Medipin
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Inventor – Barry Jacobs. Pain as change describer. The goal of promoting self-care management is ultimately to reduce the burden of diabetes on individuals, families, communities and healthcare systems. We believe it is possible to prevent and/or delay the onset of long-term diabetes related complications. As the global prevalence of diabetes increases, there is a growing requirement to promote diabetes self-care management programmes. Get straight to the point, always insist on Medipin.
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User instructions - Medipin
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Inventor – Barry Jacobs. Pain as change describer. Get straight to the point, always insist on Medipin. Use a Medipin to establish. Sensation in an area you know to be unaffected by pathology. How to use Medipin. Everyone’s perception is idiosyncratic and state dependent. Attempting to impose a standardized neuropathy threshold of stimulation across the population, even with a device that imparts a predictable level of force, simply wont work. Use a Medipin to establish. Patients are very good at express...
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Background - Neurological Pins - Medipin
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Inventor – Barry Jacobs. Pain as change describer. One of the most fundamental components of general medical examination procedure is the integrity of objective sensation. Pain is tested (referred to as sharp or prick modality) via the application of a sharp point on the skin. Neurological pins have been used in this traditional medical fashion for many years, the world over. The device is used by applying one end or the other to the patient’s skin, asking the patient, whose are eyes are closed or at lea...
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Monofilament limitations - Medipin
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Inventor – Barry Jacobs. Pain as change describer. Whilst the use of monofilament as a reliable device for the prediction of neuropathic ulceration has been well established in the literature, it must be recognised that this predictive value is compatible only with very advanced stages of degeneration. Tactile sensation is an especially idiosyncratic phenomenon, which is a function of and perpetually influenced by any number of factors. Limitations to Quantification With Monofilament. The attractive aspe...
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Peripheral neuropathy - Medipin
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Inventor – Barry Jacobs. Pain as change describer. Infection is a common complication of diabetic neuropathy, and gangrene can develop when blood supply problems caused by diabetes are present. Neuropathy is a complication that can be found in a number of different medical conditions, including Diabetes. The term neuropathy is short for peripheral neuropathy, meaning nerve damage in the peripheral nervous system. Polyneuropathy signifies that more than one nerve is affected. List Content goes here. The c...
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Home testing (DTT) - Medipin
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Inventor – Barry Jacobs. Pain as change describer. Pinprick testing is recommended by the ADA as a useful and sensitive method of testing for Loss Of Protective Sensation. According to the American Diabetes Association more than 20 million Americans have diabetes. It is also ideal as probably the easiest and most practical sensory test to perform efficiently on one-self and the Diabetic Toes Test. However there is robust evidence to suggest that routine testing at home could play an important role in hel...
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Pinprick sensibility - Medipin
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Inventor – Barry Jacobs. Pain as change describer. The testing of cutaneous pinprick sensibility is a routine medical procedure with applications in family practice, diabetes, neurology, oncology, anaesthesiology and ER. Early diagnosis and proper management can help avoid the debilitating complications of diabetes. It is most probable that contemporary practice is insufficiently sensitive to detect the early deficit described thus failing to predict subtle loss of protective thresholds in time to implem...
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Protective mechanism - Medipin
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Inventor – Barry Jacobs. Pain as change describer. According to Marks some patients will have loss of normal sensation as a result of nerve damage and hypofunction and will not be aware of their disability until injury and ulceration have occurred. Pain sensitivity can be represented on a scale whose increments roughly equate to a proportional risk of damage. In context the Latin from which the term is derived, nocere, offers the translation: To do harm (3). In principle it is reasonable to assert that i...
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Clinical approval - Medipin
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Inventor – Barry Jacobs. Pain as change describer. For neurologists, diabeticians, emergency room personnel, traumatologists, general practitioners and prosthetics departments. With over 2 million sold in the UK and US, Medipin is the preferred pinprick sensation testing choice of clinicians. Medipin is approved by the following institutions;. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US. Department of Neurophysiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UK. Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK.
