Book excerpt: NEW Davis Digital Version--online at DavisPlus--lets you access your complete text online. Quickly search for the content you need and add notes, highlights, and bookmarks. Descriptions, organized in a streamlined format, ensure you understand the identification, pathophysiology, assessment, and procedural interventions associated with peripheral nerve injuries. Case studies prepare you to evaluate the most common to complex injuries, make a diagnosis, and implement a plan of care in any setting and also address special considerations, including diabetes and cancer. Tables show procedural interventions, step-by-step. Photographs detail equipment and procedures.