Leslie,
I understand where you are coming from. I still tell my diabetics the same info about foot care whether or not they have neuropathy. Odds are they will get it eventually to some degree, kind of the nature of the beast. To me, it seems more like one of those reminders for conversation. However, if I know they have it, I am more likely to really push the self care. While sharing call this weekend I got to see one very dead looking toe on a diabetic who has not been doing his foot care properly and he apparently will lose that toe and possibly more of his foot. But back to your point....it's like my old medicine attending said in school, think about what you will do with the possible answers from a given test and if it won't change your management, then why do the test in the first place.
