Electromyography

Muscular dystrophy is a type of hereditary disorder that can cause muscle weakness and can ultimately lead to the decay of skeletal muscles. A diagnosis of this disease can create a reduced quality of life and the inability to perform basic day-to-day function. Since this disease is genetic and is caused by a mutation, it is more likely for an individual to be diagnosed if a previous member of the family has had it before. The most common type of muscular dystrophy is known as Duchenne Muscualr…

Muscular Dystrophy is a disease which leads to muscle weakness and loss of strength. This disease begins at an early age and symptoms appear during the early stages of childhood and it progressively destroys and deteriorates the muscles. Among the many types of Muscular Dystrophy, the most common and severe form is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is an inherited disorder and unlike other forms of Muscular Dystrophy, it is the one that develops and worsens quickly…

Effects Powerful Enough To Deteriorate Muscle And Hope Need an attention-getter. In 1861, Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne wrote De L'électrisation Localisée in which he described the disorder now referred to as DMD. Although later discovered, Edward Meryon described this genetic disease first, but by that time it had the title of “Duchenne” (Abramovitz p. 19-21). Out of nine different types (“Duchenne”), Duchenne MD, the most common of childhood muscular dystrophies (Abramovitz p. 19-21), is…

DOI: 4/25/2016. The patient is a 43-year-old right-hand dominant female housekeeper/maintenance worker who sustained a work-related injury alleging a repetitive injury to both wrists. Electromyography/nerve conduction studies of the upper extremities dated 05/17/2016 demonstrated moderate right sensorimotor median nerve neuropathy at the wrist consistent with carpal tunnel syndrome. There is also mild left carpal tunnel syndrome. There is no evidence of cervical radiculopathy at this time. Per…

diagnosis, the doctor may perform a spinal tap to test for changes that occur in people with GBS. The doctor may also use small needles inserted into muscles to study nerve activity. This is known as electromyography. The last means of diagnosis is through nerve conduction studies. This is similar to electromyography, but the electrode are taped to the patient’s skin, and shocks are used to measure the speed of nerve signals in the patient’s…

Along with Steinert, Batten and Gibb were the first to report on what is now known as DM1. Batten and Gribb describe two cases of what they termed myotonia atrophica. Patient 1 was a 37-year-old male while patient 2 is a 56-year-old male. In both cases, the authors note wasting of the sterno mastoids, vastus internus and forearm muscles. Both showed a weakness of the orbicularis paperbarum and stiffness in the jaws and tongues as well as initiation of walking. There was lack of or sluggish…

Spinal Stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal or of the spaces between the vertebrae where spinal nerves pass through. The narrowing can typically be caused by arthritis or injury. The vertebrae can form bone spurs. These are bony growths that pinch the spinal cord or the nerves branching from the spinal cord (Spinal Stenosis). The discs can shrink and make the space between the vertebrae smaller. This can cause the vertebrae to pinch the nerves that pass through them (Spinal Stenosis).…

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological disorder that varies in severity in presentation, but primarily manifests as rigid patterns of behavior and impaired social communication. According to the CDC (2014), autism is a relatively common disorder, with 1 out of 68 of the United States population being diagnosed. Autism was first described by Dr. Kanner in 1943, but the disorder was not recognized as a separate disorder from schizophrenia until the DSM-III (1980). The most significant…

The process that is used by nurses and clinicians to consider a patient situation, collect data, process this data, make goals and implement interventions, evaluate outcomes and then finally, reflect on the learning outcomes from this process, is known as clinical reasoning (Hoffman, 2007). Clinical reasoning cycle is the tool that is used for the process of clinical reasoning. This paper will discuss management of Motor neurone disease using the clinical reasoning cycle as a framework. However,…

Dermatomyositis is a muscle disease where it causes weakness in the muscles and can cause a skin rash. Joints can also be affected. This disease affects children between the ages of 5 and 15 years old and adults ages of late 40’s to early 60’s. Females are more likely to get dermatomyositis than men are. There is not a cure for dermatomyositis but there is treatment that can help improve symptoms. These symptoms include skin changes and muscle weaknesses. Your skin can change to a dusky red or…