title: Establishing normal values of moving two-point discrimination in children and adolescents.
abstract: To establish normal values of moving two-point discrimination (2pd) in children and adolescents, bilateral median and ulnar nerve distribution in 313 subjects aged 4 to 18 years was evaluated. A moving 2pd of 2 to 3mm for both the median and ulnar nerve distributions bilaterally was found in 270 subjects. 2% (N = 5) had moving 2pds of 4mm for both right and left median nerve distributions. There was a significant increase in mean age with 2, 3 and 4mm of moving 2pd for median and ulnar nerves bilaterally. There was no significant difference between sexes for ulnar nerves bilaterally or left median nerve. A borderline difference was found between the sexes for the right median nerve. Multivariate logistic regression revealed age as a significant predictor of discrimination for all variables. Significantly more subjects had a moving 2pd of 4mm in the ulnar nerve distribution than in the median nerve distribution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Hermann
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Novak
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Mackinnon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000502:physiology; D014459:Ulnar Nerve / Q000502:physiology