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Episode 40 - Basics of EMG and Nerve Conduction Studies

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What Are the Signs of Inflammatory Minocitis?

We want to observe and listen to the muscle at rest first. If it's com silent, that wouldn't be normal either. But were also looking for a sort of prolonged insertional activity past what we would expect from just that initial pop. Now it's sometimes for the patient to relax o, you can hear occasional voluntary motor unit discharges but you shouldn't be hearing anything else. And when you do, we call it spontaneous activity. Spontaneous activity is abnormal, and it can come in many different forms. Terms you'll see on exams and e m g tables on standardized tests would be things like positive sharp waves or fibrulations. Those are really signs of uscle fibre

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