BACKGROUND Hand movement constitutes the most common daily activities in our life. Hand dexterity is often impaired in patients with neurological disease. We developed an adjunct method, based upon the electrodiagnostic software, for study of motor control and hand dexterity. METHODS Thirty-two normal subjects, 2 stroke patients and 2 Parkinson patients were included in the study. All of them...

INTRODUCTION Acute-onset chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (A-CIDP) is an increasingly recognized CIDP subtype. Differentiating A-CIDP from Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is challenging but important, because there are different treatment outcomes. METHODS We report 3 patients with A-CIDP who were initially diagnosed with severe GBS but were later confirmed to have CIDP based o...

OBJECTIVES To identify clinical factors associated with falls by older persons with polyneuropathy (PN). DESIGN A cross-sectional study of 82 subjects aged 50 to 85 with clinical and electrodiagnostic evidence of PN. SETTING Electrodiagnostic and biomechanical research laboratories. PARTICIPANTS Patients referred to the electrodiagnostic laboratory. MEASUREMENTS History and physical exa...

The frequency of peripheral nerve involvement in sarcoidosis is uncertain. To determine how often peripheral nerves are affected in the absence of symptoms, electromyography was performed on 29 sarcoid patients and 29 age-matched controls. Nineteen sarcoid patients, compared to two controls, had abnormally low sensory amplitudes in one or more nerves, and the mean sensory amplitudes for median,...

BACKGROUND Phlebotomy is one of the routine procedures done in medical labs daily. CASE PRESENTATION A 52 yr woman noted shooting pain and dysesthesia over her right side anterolateral aspect of forearm, clinical examination and electrodiagnostic studies showed severe involvement of right side lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve. CONCLUSION Phlebotomy around lateral aspect of antecubital f...

Key Practice Points: • Upper limb entrapment neuropathies can present clinically similar to various musculoskeletal conditions. • History, physical examination, and electrodiagnostic studies alone do not always accurately identify the correct diagnosis. • The practioner’s ability to employ a combination of neuromuscular and musculoskeletal ultrasound can be a powerful adjuvant to clinical and e...