07/31/2026
“Your tests are normal” should never be translated into “your symptoms are not real.”
It should mean the tests did not detect the type or degree of dysfunction they were designed to detect.
That distinction is where many complex nerve cases get lost.
A standard workup is excellent at identifying fixed lesions, large-fiber damage, denervation, major structural compression, and other serious pathology. It is much less suited to answering questions like:
Does the nerve move normally through its entire pathway?
Does it become symptomatic only after repetition, load, or a specific position?
Are several smaller restrictions creating one cumulative problem?
Is the nerve’s recovery capacity being reduced by sleep, inflammation, metabolic health, nutrition, or previous injury?
This is why I do not stop at the body part that hurts or the test that came back normal. I look at the whole nerve pathway, the patient’s functional threshold, and what changes when the suspected interfaces are treated and immediately retested.
That test-retest process matters. It tells us whether the system is mechanically modifiable, whether the treatment target makes sense, and whether we should continue, change direction, investigate further, or refer out.
I am Dr. Sina Yeganeh, chiropractor and global complex case consultant. I work with patients whose symptoms have outgrown single-region explanations and whose conventional workups have not explained why function keeps failing.
My newest Movability Masterclass article on Substack is:
“Normal EMG. Normal MRI. Still Numb: Why Double Crush Syndrome Misses Multisite Nerve Dysfunction.”
Inside, I break down the physiology of nerve glide, blood flow, fascial interfaces, mechanotransduction, tissue remodelling, and why double crush is often too narrow. I also walk through a real clinical case and the pivot points that changed the outcome, without reducing the story to one tunnel or one treatment.
The full Root Cause Breakdown is linked in my bio.
At Movability, this is why our complex case assessments examine the whole pathway, retest function, and let the physiology determine the next step.
Dr. Sina