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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about peripheral neuropathy and death from peripheral neuropathy.
Meaning of peripheral neuropathy
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, peripheral neuropathy:
(a)           means a non-traumatic pathology of the peripheral nerves that supply the upper or lower limbs, and producing:
(i)             symptoms; and
(ii)          signs or electrodiagnostic evidence (electromyography or nerve conduction studies);
            of impaired motor, sensory or autonomic functioning; and
(b)          includes mononeuritis multiplex; and
(c)          excludes:
(i)             autoimmune nodopathies associated with autoantibodies against nodal and paranodal proteins;
(ii)         chronic immune sensory polyradiculopathy and chronic immune sensory and motor polyradiculopathy;
(iii)       chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and its variants;
(iv)         complex regional pain syndrome;
(v)          Guillain-Barre syndrome;
(vi)        hereditary neuropathies;
(vii)     isolated mononeuropathies of the upper or lower limbs including carpal tunnel syndrome, meralgia paraesthetica, Morton metatarsalgia, tarsal tunnel syndrome, and ulnar neuropathy at the elbow;
(viii)    motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis);
(ix)         multifocal motor neuropathy;
(x)           neuralgic amyotrophy;
(xi)         neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome; and
(xii)     peripheral manifestations of brain or spinal cord pathology including cerebrovascular accident, traumatic brain injury, cerebral tumours, multiple sclerosis, myelopathy, myelitis or cauda equina syndrome.
Note 1: Peripheral nerves include motor, sensory and autonomic nerves extending from the nerve roots to the sensors or actuators.
Note 2: Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy include tingling, numbness, pain, weakness and sweating dysfunction.
Note 3: non-traumatic is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
Death from peripheral neuropathy
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, peripheral neuropathy, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's peripheral neuropathy.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.