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Nerve Conduction Study (NCS),

▶  Nerve conduction studies (NCS) give information about how well and how fast the                                   electrical   impulses are travelling in the nerves. This test can be used to check for                                   various different types of problems with the peripheral nervous system.                                                     The nerve is electrically stimulated and the response of the nerve to that                                                   electrical impulse is measured. This is usually done with surface patch electrodes.

▶  NCS is helpful in determining the presence, type, pattern and severity of nerve damage. NCS                 allows the Neurologist to differentiate between axonopathy (injury to the nerve fibre) and                       myelinopathy (injury to the protective covering surrounding the nerve fibre).

Precautions with NCS

 

↪  Dress in loose clothes that permit access to the area to be tested or that are easily removed.

↪  You may need to roll your sleeves up past your elbow and/or your pants up past your knee.

↪  Come with your skin clean and do not apply lotions or creams on your skin.

↪  Eat, sleep and take medications as usual.

↪  Inform if you have a Pacemaker/ICD/DBS type of electrical devices.

NCS can be useful in the diagnosis

✓  of peripheral nerve and muscle problems. This can include peripheral neuropathies, entrapment           neuropathies, radiculopathies and muscle disorders.

✓  Neurologists advise them in case patient has tingling, paresthesias, numbness, weakness, muscle         pain, radiating pain.

↪ ENMG is very important in certain neurological diseases:

↪  Guillain-Barré syndrome

↪  Carpel Tunnel Syndrome and other entrapment neuropathies

↪  Peripheral neuropathy

↪  Mononeuropathy Multiplex

↪  Motor Neuron Disease/ALS

↪   PIVD/Sciatica/Radiculopathy

↪  Myopathy – polymyositis/dermatomyositis

↪  Muscular Dystrophy

✓ RNS can be useful for diagnosis of neuromuscular junction disorders like myasthenia gravis,                  Lambert eaton syndrome, Botulism and other such disorders

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