Executive Summary The electrodiagnostic medicine (EDX) evaluation is an important and useful extension of the clinical evaluation of patients with disorders of the peripheral and/or central nervous system. EDX tests are often crucial to evaluating symptoms, arriving at a proper diagnosis, and in following a disease process and its response to treatment in patients with neuromuscular (NM) disord...

BACKGROUND Diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) is a disabling complication of diabetes mellitus. A population-based analysis of physician utilization of nerve conduction studies (NCS) for the assessment of DPN was conducted. METHODS All electrodiagnostic encounters over a 30-month period using a computer-based neurodiagnostic instrument linked to a data registry were analyzed retrospectively. The D...

S i n g l e fiber electromyography (SFEMG) has proven to be a useful electrodiagnostic tool to assess defects of neuromuscular junction transmis

Objective: To study the pattern of severity in patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) presented at electrodiagnostic clinic at Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (AFIRM), Rawalpindi. Study Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study. Place and Duration of the Study: Electro-diagnostic Department of Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (AFIRM), Rawalpindi for 6 mont...

Patients presumed to have lower limb symptoms localizing to the lumbar or lumbosacral plexus require rigorous electrophysiological evaluation. Entities that cause lumbosacral plexopathies may be patchy, asymmetrical and more diffuse than initially suspected. As a result, bilateral nerve conduction studies and needle examination outside those routinely tested and clinically affected may be neede...

Executive Summary The electrodiagnostic medicine (EDX) evaluation is an important and useful extension of the clinical evaluation of patients with disorders of the peripheral and/or central nervous system. EDX tests are often crucial to evaluating symptoms, arriving at a proper diagnosis, and in following a disease process and its response to treatment in patients with neuromuscular (NM) disord...

INTRODUCTION To study the effects of Polarized Polychromatic Noncoherent Light (Bioptron) therapy on patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). METHODS This study was designed as a randomized clinical trial. Forty four patients with mild or moderate CTS (confirmed by clinical and electrodiagnostic studies) were assigned randomly into two groups (intervention and control goups). At the beginn...

Objective: Carpal and cubital tunnel syndromes are common entrapment neuropathies [1]. Some previous studies showed that carpal syndrome and, to a lesser extent, can impair sleep quality of life [2-4]. But there only few comparing these two [5]. However, no study, which evaluates hand dexterity, quality, life, neuropathic pain in relation the severity compression determined by Electroneurograph...