‘DANG THE RAPIST’ is a mnemonic to help recall or classify the most common disorders affecting the peripheral nerves. There are several different versions of this.
Diabetes
Alcohol (>10 years)
Nutritional (eg Vit B12)
Gullain-Barre Syndrome
Trauma or Toxins or Tumours or Thyroid
Hereditary (eg Charcot-Marie-Tooth)
Environmental toxins and drugs or Endocrine (eg thyroid)
Rheumatic (eg sarcoidosis) or Radiculopathy
Amyloidosis
Paraneoplastic or Polio or Pb (lead)
Infections (eg HIV) or Idiopathic
Systemic disease or Sarcoidosis
Tumours or Toxins
Mnemonics are a system such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something. This one, DANG THE RAPIST, is not necessarily the most appropriate, but because of that it is certainly memorable.
Other podiatry relevant mnemonics:
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