[Comparison of EMG tracings obtained by means of computer analysis and by routine quantitative method]

The purpose of the present work was to compare EMG tracings obtained by the automatic method using the computer ANOPS and by the method of quantitative electromyography. The measurements of the automatic method were found to be reliable and reproducible permitting to distinguish normal from pathological tracing, and in the pathological tracing to discriminate between the so called primary muscular and the neurogenic changes. The automatic method permits a much larger number of potentials to be evaluated, besides it is less time consuming and more objective since it rules out subjective selection of potentials which is a drawback in the conventional method.