This week we are going to discuss a diagnostic test which is often ordered to differentiate between diseases of the nerve and muscle, as well as the nerve itself and the myelin sheath of the nerve. A ...

This week we are going to discuss not an injury but a specific test that is performed to diagnose an injury. That test? The nerve conduction velocity test or NCV/EMG. The nerve conduction velocity ...

Doctors may use a range of tests to diagnose myasthenia gravis (MG), including blood tests, nerve conduction tests, and imaging tests. MG is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the voluntary ...

Reflex Lynch syndrome screening by example: A review of existing programs. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a full text ...

To measure each subject’s nerve conduction velocity for their study, researchers Jason DeFreitas (pictured far right) and JoCarol Shields used nerve conduction tests that stimulated the nerves in the ...

Hancock County Health System (HCHS) has partnered with the John K. and Luise V. Hanson Foundation to purchase a Nerve Conduction Velocity machine. “Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV) testing measures how ...

Department of Physical Therapy, Aomori University of health and welfare, 58-1 Hamadate Mase, Aomori-shi, Aomori, 030-8505, Japan Background In sports, warm-up is used for injury prevention and ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome is a condition that rapidly causes muscle weakness in patients following a period of infection with a bacteria or virus. Some people with the syndrome are unable to carry out ...