Nerve/Muscle Studies

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Many complicated conditions prompt the need for diagnostic testing.  A Nerve Conduction Study, or NCV, can be completed to determine the health of the nerves just as a Electromyography, or EMG, is used to determine the health of muscles.

 

Some of the most common symptoms for testing include:

  

• A determination of nerve irritation or damage is suspected and objective substantiation and documentation is needed.

• Continued non-resolving and unexplainable pain in limb, weakness, disturbance in skin sensation, numbness, tingling, and/or loss of sensation.

• Subjective complaints are evident, objective findings not supportive.

• X-Rays, CT, or MRI are negative, yet neurological symptoms persist.

• Burning, pins and needles feelings in arms and legs.

• No response to therapy, symptoms continue.

• Acute or chronic neck and back pain.

• Walking and balance problems, unsteadiness.

• Difficulty with fine finger and hand movements.

• Non-resolving radicular pain.

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Subjective nerve damage associated with a patient’s injury or complaint can be successfully diagnosed with an objective study. Many complicated symptoms require the need for an in-depth and accurate diagnostic examination that only the NCV and EMG test provides.