HOFFMANN-TINEL SIGN: HISTORY OF DISCOVERY
The paper is devoted to the history of discovery of one of the most widely used clinical tests - Hoffman-Tinel sign. This test is named for French neurologist Jules Tinel, whose main activity was in the period of the early 1900s and the First World War. The large amount of wounded people with injuries of peripheral nerves required improvement and development of clinical diagnostic methods in the epoch, when electrodiagnostic instruments were not discovered yet. In 1915, Tinel published the paper describing the sensation of “tingling” characteristic of nerve injury. Initially, he believed that the positive percussion symptom is indicative of the positive result of nerve regeneration, but then explained that the test only indicates the growth of young axons and excludes neither neuroma not healing, and the dynamics should be taken into account. However, Tinel was not the first describing this symptoms. Before him, it was described by Trotter, Davis, and Hoffman. The last one published his papers few months before Tinel, but the scientists were divided by the war and did not know the studies of each other. Because of many contradictory results, the Tinel test was not first recognized by his contemporaries. However, in the middle 20th century, practicing doctors took a new look at it. Now the Tinel sign occupies an important place in the diagnostic of many diseases, in particular, the carpal tunnel syndrome.
Keywords
Жюль Тинель,
симптом Хоффмана-Тинеля,
тест Тинеля,
хирургия кисти,
неврология,
история медицины,
Jules Tinel,
Hoffman-Tinel sign,
Tinel test,
palmar surgery,
neurology,
history of medicineAuthors
| Dudnikov A.V. | Institute of Microsurgery | dudnikovt19@gmail.com |
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