The value of electromyography in neurology

By detection of muscular fibrillation, a sign of motor nerve impairment, through electromyography, diseases of the motor nervous system can be distinguished from muscular disorders, malingering, and psychoneurotic states. The site of lesion can be determined and the degree of impairment and progress of recovery can be estimated. The method has been used successfully in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, poliomyelitis, peripheral neuritis and neuronitis, and root compression syndrome, as also for indirect evidence in muscular dystrophy and other myopathic conditions.