Diversity of Neuromuscular Disorders in Referred Patients to Electro Diagnostic Units of Yazd City

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Electrodiagnostic tests are electrical technologies for evaluating the body's neurophysiology and used as a complementary method for diagnosing the neuro-muscular disorders. These tests are commonly used to diagnosis these disorders: Anterior horn cell disease, Muscular disorders (1, 2). Because the prevalence and demographic features of disorders referred to electrodiag-nosis departments are undetermined, this study was performed. People enrolled the study were patients whom were referred to electrodiagnosis units in (myasthe-nia). In two years consecutive study, EMG-NCV findings of 2933 patients were analyzed. 1651 patients were females and 1282 patients were males which female gender was more significantly (P < 0.001). Patients' mean age was 43.2 ± 16.4 which 1805 patients were more than 40 and 1128 were under 40 years old (P < 0.001). CTS, lumbar and cervical radiculopathy and peripheral neuropathy were more in patients over 40 years old and trauma, motor neuron disease, myotonia and myasthenia were more in patients under 40 years old significantly(P < 0.001). Numerous studies emphasized the more prevalence of CTS in patients over 40 years because of osteoarthritis and diabetes mellitus (3-5). More normal reports in patients over than 40 yeras old are may be due to rheumatologic disorders, neuromuscular pain with articular, tendonal or muscular origin in which may lead to false diagnosis and refer normal patients for EMG-NCV (6-8). Normal variable and CTS were more in females and cervical radic-ulopathy, trauma, nerve entrapment and myotonia were more in males significantly (P < 0.001). Several studies indicate more prevalence of CTS 3 to 7 times in females (3-5). In our study this ratio was 6.5/1. In this study cervi-cal radiculopathy was more prevalent in men like other studies (P = 0.024) 9. 32.3% of reports were normal which may be due to high prevalence of soft tissue disorders, muscular pain around shoulder and pelvic griddles such as bursitis, tendonitis and myofacial pain which may be misdiagnosed as radicular pain or other peripheral diseases (6-8). So obtaining precise history and performing complete general and neurologic examination could lead to decrement the referring rate of patients with diseases other than motor unit involvement lead to lowering cost of EMG-NCV for health and treatment system (Table 1).