Electrodiagnostic testing provide information that helps your physician identify and evaluate conditions that affect the neuromuscular system including:
- Compressive or repetitive nerve conditions:
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome
- Peroneal (fibular) neuropathies
- Radiculopathies:
- Cervical nerve root entrapment
- Lumbosacral nerve root entrapment
- Plexopathies:
- Brachial plexopathy
- Lumbosacral plexopathy
- Polyneuropathies:
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Toxic, vascular, inflammatory or idiopathic polyneuropathies
- Motor neuron disease:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Post polio syndrome
- Myopathies:
- Polymyositis
- Dermatomyositis
- Muscular dystrophies
- Neuromuscular junction disorders:
- Myasthenia gravis
- Lambert-Eaton syndrome
Electrodiagnostic Testing can help in:
- Narrowing possible etiologies of injuries
- Localizing the site of injury
- Estimating the extend/severity of an injury
- Assessing injury progression or regression
- Ruling out other causes or etiologies of nerve injury
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