TY - JOUR T1 - Case of the month: The skin wrinkle test: a simple nerve injury test for paediatric and uncooperative patients JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 883 LP - 886 DO - 10.1136/emj.2005.031377 VL - 23 IS - 11 AU - A Tindall AU - R Dawood AU - B Povlsen Y1 - 2006/11/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/23/11/883.abstract N2 - Assessment of the distal neurological status after injuries to the hand and fingers is one of the most frequent parts of standard trauma practice. Two-point discrimination as clinical examination is often sufficient to identify such lesions, but difficulties occur in the comatose, young or otherwise uncooperative patient. This article describes a simple pain-free alternative method of assessing digital nerve integrity by submerging the finger tip in water and observing if wrinkles develop on the skin. ER -