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REFERENCE · RECOVERY TECHNIQUES

Functional Sensory Symptoms: Detailed Recovery and Care Pages

These twelve pages expand the [sensory recovery overview](../07-functional-sensory-symptoms.md). Choose by the assessed problem: reduced sensation, painful contact, difficulty interpreting touch, activity limitations or safety needs. They are selectable approaches, not a twelve-step programme.

Original list: 10 entries

The 10 original entries each have one detailed page. Two additional safety/planning pages bring the document total to 12; there were not 12 original techniques. These are document counts, not counts of independently proven treatments. See the history audit.

  1. Graded sensory stimulation: Graded Sensory Input for Reduced or Altered Sensation.
  2. Desensitization for hypersensitivity: Desensitization for Painful Touch and Hypersensitivity.
  3. Sensory discrimination: Sensory Discrimination: Texture, Location and Object Recognition.
  4. Pair sensation with meaningful movement: Pairing Sensation With Meaningful Movement.
  5. Graded return to ordinary contact: Graded Return to Clothing, Footwear and Everyday Contact.
  6. Mirror or visual feedback: Visual and Mirror Feedback for Altered Body Sensation.
  7. Attention redirection: External Attention and Task Focus.
  8. Sensory-profile assessment and OT strategies: Sensory-Profile Assessment and Environmental Adaptation.
  9. TENS or electrical stimulation: TENS and Electrical Stimulation: Specialist Review and Safety.
  10. Treat related pain or migraine: Coexisting Pain, Migraine and Medical Review.

Additional treatment-review and care pages

These extend the collection but are not additional entries in the original list.

  • Skin, Pressure and Injury Protection — Additional injury-protection guidance. Develops skin, burn and pressure precautions from the original page; protective care is not a new sensory-restoration technique.
  • Episode, Flare and Available-Capacity Planning — Additional flare-planning guidance. Develops the original unnumbered episode/flare guidance and available-capacity planning; it is not a new sensory-restoration technique.

Each page includes plain-language terms, a practical example, supporter guidance, clinician selection and procedure, flare adaptations, review criteria and its own sources. Most approaches rely on clinical guidance or rehabilitation adaptation. The uncontrolled sensory-based OT study does not establish that any individual exercise works.

Protective care and accommodations can continue alongside rehabilitation. TENS must not be applied to numb skin or increased until sensation appears. A changed sensory pattern needs reassessment; special-sense, seizure, paralysis and dissociation presentations may need a different care pathway.