A device for measuring sural nerve conduction velocity and amplitude, the device comprising:a housingstimulation means mounted to the housing for electrically stimulating a human sural nervea biosensor releasably mounted to the housing, the biosensor comprising a plurality of electrodes for detecting a sural nerve response evoked by the stimulation meansacquisition means mounted to the housing and electrically connected to the biosensor for electrically acquiring the sural nerve response detected by the biosensordetection means mounted to the housing and electrically connected to the stimulation means and the acquisition means for detecting shorting or shunt of the stimulation current on the surface of the skinprocessing means mounted to the housing and electrically connected to the acquisition means for digitizing, processing and storing the acquired sural nerve responsecalculation means mounted to the housing and electrically connected to the processing means for calculating the conduction velocity and amplitude of the processed sural nerve response anddisplay means mounted to the housing for displaying the sural nerve conduction velocity and amplitudewherein the stimulation means and the biosensor are designed to be placed on a patients anatomy, in the vicinity of a sural nerve, by manipulating the housing.
