Upper and lower extremities nursing assessment during a head-to-toe assessment: Nurses assess the extremities so that they can identify potential diseases or disorders in the arms, hands, legs, and feet.
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The lower extremities examination involves assessing things such as color from legs to toes, normal hair growth (peripheral vascular disease: leg may be hairless, shiny, thin), are the legs warm (good blood flow)?
You'll also want to check for edema/swelling by pressing down firmly over the tibia to check for pitting. Look for any redness, swelling DVT (deep vein thrombosis), capillary refill less than 2 seconds in toes?
Also, check the following:
-How do the toe nails look (fungal or normal)?
-Are there sores on the feet? (Note: with diabetics, foot care is important. They don’t have good sensation on their feet. Therefore, inspect the feet for damage because they may not be aware of it.)
-Is there any breakdown on the heels?
-Assess joints of the toes and knees (any crepitus, redness, swelling, pain)
-Palpate pulses bilaterally: popliteal (behind the knee), dorsalis pedis (top of foot), posterior tibial (at the ankle) and grade them
-Palpate muscle strength: have patient push against resistance with feet and lift legs
-Test Babinski reflex: curling toes is a negative normal response
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