Robert Wartenberg

Robert Wartenberg (June 19, 1887 – November 16, 1956)[1] was an American neurologist and professor.

History

Wartenberg was born in 1886 in Grodno, Belarus, then in the Russian Empire. He graduated from the University of Rostock, Germany in 1919.[2] He worked with Max Nonne in Hamburg and Otfrid Foerster in Breslau. In 1933, he became head of the neurological clinic at Freiburg and Privatdozent in neurology. However, he was persecuted by the Nazis, and in 1935 he left Germany and settled in San Francisco. In 1952 he was appointed clinical professor of neurology at the University of California. Wartenberg was Jewish.[3]

Career

Robert Wartenberg is known as the inventor of the Wartenberg neuronal wheel, a medical device through which it is possible to test the skin sensitivity of a subject, by systematically rotating the tool across the skin. The cheiralgia paresthetica, a neuropathy of the hand caused by compression to the superficial branch of the radial nerve, was first identified by Robert Wartenberg in 1932.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ See entry of Robert Wartenberg in Rostock Matrikelportal
  3. ↑ {Three Twentieth-Century Multiauthored Neurological Handbooks – A Historical Analysis and Bibliometric Comparison https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3933202/]
  4. ↑ Ehrlich W, Dellon AL, Mackinnon SE (March 1986). "Classical article: Cheiralgia paresthetica (entrapment of the radial nerve). A translation in condensed form of Robert Wartenberg's original article published in 1932". J Hand Surg Am. 11 (2): 196–9. PMID 3514740. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  5. ↑ Braidwood AS (August 1975). "Superficial radial neuropathy". J Bone Joint Surg Br. 57 (3): 380–3. PMID 1158953.

See also


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.