Treatment of Pathogenic Neuromuscular Dysfunction Utilizing Electromyometric Feedback

All pathologic neuromuscular disorders have two common characteristics: (1) they occur as a direct result of damage to nervous tissue (supraspinal, spinal cord or peripheral nerve); and (2) the damage results in a disruption of a feedback loop or communication path between supraspinal structures (brain) or between supraspinal structures and the organs associated with them. These include four separate disorders: (1) the post cerebral vascular accident (CVA) syndrome, (2) the peripheral nerve injury syndrome, (3) the spinal cord injury syndrome and (4) cerebral palsy. These conditions have common elements that may allow for a similarity in their rehabilitation, but each has a different etiology and differences that deserve exploration and discussion.