Christopher Ellis says start with a physical therapist for nerve pain. They can test reflexes, strength, and sensation to spot the problem, then refer you to a neurologist for an EMG if needed.
What do you do? You know, first stop would be a physical therapist, in my opinion. Most physical therapists that are decent can pick up on these things. They can tell, is it peripheral or central? We can look for your reflexes. We can look at your strength, your range of motion, your sensation, right? Nerves are, you know, these types of nerves at least are two-way streets. They do motor control and they do sensation. We can look at nerve sensitivity. There's something called a slump test and there's tension tests that we can do to see if the nerve is involved. And then you may be referred to neurologist for an EMG study where they checked the strength of the signal of the nerve.
