Andrew J. Haig, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; John C. Kincaid, MD, Indiana University, Indianapolis; Timothy Dillingham, MD, MS, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Peter Grant, MD, private practice, Medford, OR: A recent article by Charles and Souayah concludes that electrodiagnostic testing for spinal disorders is of little value. As neurologists and physiatrist subspecialists ...

Objectives: Following arthroscopic shoulder procedures such as total arthroplasties, reverse and rotator cuff repairs, select patients have presented with symptomatic distal mononeuropathy (DMN) that require follow-up nerve release procedure(s). This occurrence may be secondary to operative complications limb traction, surgical dissection, hematoma formation, or interscalene block placement. Se...

This paper introduces an application of the Sequential Network Construction ( snc) method to select the size of several popular neural network predictor architectures for various benchmark training sets. The specific architectures considered are a fir network and the partially recurrent Elman network and its extension, with context units also added for the output layer. We consider an enhanceme...

Methods We performed BV pharmacopuncture therapy with different concentrations on neuropathic pain in a rat model on the 7th day after ligating the L5 nerve as suggested by Kim and Chung. Rats were divided into a control group (treated with normal saline), experimental group I (treated with constantly increased BV concentration, from 1.67×10mg/kg to 8.35×10mg/kg, total 3.22×10mg), and experimen...

OBJECTIVE This case study is about an 11-year-old girl with bilateral facial weakness, abnormal taste sensation, and absent deep tendon reflexes of both knees and ankles. However, the muscle power of the lower and upper extremities across all muscle groups was normal. After 2 days, she developed paresthesia and numbness in the lower extremities. Other neurologic examinations, such as fundoscopi...

Carrier woman of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) can mimic the inflammatory myositis in presenting symptoms. Two diseases should be differentiated by the clinical history, muscle biopsy and genetic study. There are few reports in which both histochemical and genetic study showed the possible link of overlapping inflammatory pathophysiology with dystrophinopathy. We report a 40-yr-old woman wh...

Nine young or middle aged patients with early symptoms of Welander's distal myopathy were subjected to a detailed neurological examination including quantitative sensory testing, determination of motor and sensory nerve conduction velocity (NCV), sensory nerve action potentials, electromyography (EMG) and muscle biopsy from the tibialis anterior muscle (TA). Slight weakness of the extensors of ...