[Function of the neuromotor apparatus in diabetes mellitus depending on metabolic compensation]

Electromyography was used to show that metabolism decompensation in diabetes mellitus induces reversible muscular changes, manifesting in the decreased tendon reflex and motor response amplitudes. These indices of neuromotor apparatus function return to normal in diabetes compensation. Meanwhile, diabetes compensation does not lead to rapid recovery of the affected nervous conduction and spinal motoneuronal excitability.