The Less than 5 minute cranial nerve screen
Dr. Caudill and I have the privilege to teach in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at USC, where we recently taught in the Neuropathology course. As many of my students know, I love the cranial nerves! There is something charming and lovely about the 12 small pairs of cranial nerves exiting from the brainstem. More importantly, the cranial nerves provide exquisite insight for neurologic differential diagnosis. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of completing an efficient and accurate cranial nerve screen for patients with neurologic dysfunction. The students in our class are now completing their final internships and I received a request from one of them to post “5 minute Cranial Nerve Screen” video that I had filmed for our class. I put this short video together in my kitchen one afternoon with my then 4 year old daughter in order to demonstrate that a brief cranial nerve screen could be done in 5 minutes or ...