Specific Examples of Electrodiagnostic Testing Changing your Management

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vadim1980 said:
I use it a lot of times to assess for any chronic changes. Say for example the patient had surgery in the lumbar spine and has persistent radicular pain. I would be more comfortable with doing a spinal cord stimulator with chronic changes illustrated an EMG
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Unnecessary unless needed for insurance auth.
Patients can have a very real and painful pure sensory radiculopathy that will not show up on an EMG.
 
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