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Discussion and Clinical Implications

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Double-Crush Syndrome

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Despite occasional contradictions in experimental data on the complex double crush-syndrome problem, I can safely conclude that this syndrome exists as a separate clinical entity. The exact neurophysiological and cellular mechanisms of this phenomenon, however, are not clearly established or universally accepted.

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Golovchinsky, V. (2000). Discussion and Clinical Implications. In: Double-Crush Syndrome. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4419-7_6

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