@artscaping one of my favorite meetings of the Minnesota Neuropathy Association before if disbanded was the 20 year celebration of the association. Notes from my favorite speaker an 80 year old Neurologist from the University of Minnesota, Dr. William Kennedy on idiopathic diagnosis 😂🤣

Dr. William Kennedy – “Simple inventions that quantify touch on finger, vibration on toes and sweating in neuropathy”
My favorite speaker of the day. All of the speakers had a Q & A after their talk and one of the burning questions of the day was how many people are affected by neuropathy in the U.S. and around the world. Pam and Dr. Walk had both said they thought the numbers were around 20 million in the U.S. and up to 128 million in China. Dr. Kennedy said he would take exception with his younger counterparts and said it’s more like 100% if you live long enough. Since there was some discussion of idiopathic PN, Dr. Kennedy asked if we knew how
the diagnosis is made for idiopathic. Got my best laugh of the day when he told us it got the name from the idiot neurologist who diagnosed it. Dr. Kennedy went on to talk about his research work on developing a tool he would like to make available in every GPs office to easily test for neuropathy. More information can be found on his website: http://kennedylab.med.umn.edu/

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