Specific Examples of Electrodiagnostic Testing Changing your Management

[SSdoc33]

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lot of bad info re: EMGs in this thread

 

[cowboydoc]

lot of bad info re: EMGs in this thread

Dumitru would be fuming😡

 

[MitchLevi]

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

What?

 

[bedrock]

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

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.