--but it would really need to be expanded even further to be applicable to all types of neuropathies.

Dr. Dyck's assertion is quite accurate--this may become the gold standard for tracking disorders of larger fiber types, because the types of fibers that possess complex cellular structures such as Meissner's corpuscles are still mechanoreceptors (such as are described in the article)--not the generally unmyelinated A-delta and C fibers that subsume the sensations of pain and temperature (these are even smaller than the small nerves being described here). What this advance may really do is confirm neuropathy, non-invasively, in those who have normal or near-normal EMG/NCS results of the really large myelinated nerves.

Still, anything that can track nerve condition without cutting is a good thing.