What should you teach not to touch with allodynia ?
Answer: The zone where is allodynia ... and distal to it (I mean distal cousin). Stimulation on a distal part can induce pain, because nerve impulses going through proximal nerve.
So you have to…
Did you try to find somewhere confortable in cervical segment or head(a possibility) ?
If there is no confortable part (right side), you can try to leave your patient with only one recommendation: to limit the more he can being touched on the allod…
I'm Marie-Claude
I'm an O.T. working in a physio clinic at an hour west of Montreal, Canada. I work with patients who have been injured mostly at work or in a car accident, they sometimes have neuropathic pain that I can explore and treat. I was …