Aim: The heterogeneity of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) clinical phenotypes leads to difficulties in early diagnosis. ‘split hand’ sign is defined as thenar muscles that are more prominently affected by hypothenar. In this study, results initial nerve conduction study patients were compared with those controls order increase findings supporting diagnosis.
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background: many people suffer from nerve injury. the time consuming nature of the treatments makes the condition worse. therefore, finding a way to accelerate the process of nerve repair is very important. objective: to determine the effect of ultrasound on the acceleration of crushed peripheral nerve regeneration. methods: the experimental model included crushed rat’s sciatic nerve. 40 rats w...

To investigate the feasibility of both needle electromyography (EMG) and proximal nerve conduction studies (NCS) in predicting C5 palsy after posterior cervical decompression. This study included 192 patients with myelopathy undergoing laminoplasty or laminectomy. Preoperatively, all accepted bilateral EMG detection NCS that consisted supramaximally stimulating Erb’s point recording compound mu...

the goal of this study was to investigate the effect of using computer conceptual maps­, compared with  usual way of drawing them by pencil and paper­, in increasing learning, recalling and educational progress motivation in geology course among high school students. the study was conducted in semi experimental method in which students of 3 classes were classified in 3 groups. (group 1: common ...

BACKGROUND The severity of neuromuscular symptoms and signs in hypothyroidism is known to be related to the duration and degree of hormone deficiency. PURPOSE The present study was aimed to assess whether recently diagnosed and untreated hypothyroidism affects peripheral nervous system. METHODS The study included a total of 120 female subjects with age ranging from 20 to 45 years. The motor...

The BASC system provides tools for the integrated mining and browsing of genetic, genomic and phenotypic data. This public resource hosts information on Brassica species supporting the Multinational Brassica Genome Sequencing Project, and is based upon five distinct modules, ESTDB, Microarray, MarkerQTL, CMap and EnsEMBL. ESTDB hosts expressed gene sequences and related annotation derived from ...

Introduction:. Several studies have shown a significant amplitude decrement in compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) on repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) of muscles involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In ALS, muscle wasting preferentially affects the thenar muscles (APB) rather than the hypothenar muscles (ADM). Methods:. We performed RNS studies in the APB and ADM muscles of ...

The anomalous innervation of the extensor digitorum brevis (EDB) muscle by the accessory deep peroneal nerve is presented below. This 23-year-old male was referred to the clinical neurophysiology laboratory for evaluation of possible lumbar radiculopathy. The nerve conduction study (NCS) and electromyography revealed abnormalities consistent with an S 1 radiculopathy on the right. Incidentally,...