![]() ![]() When he did my hand, I was very aware that a needle was involved. ![]() That was the first I knew that the EMG involved needles! Sometimes ignorance is advantageous He said, no, he had a needle in my arm and was repositioning it (without pulling it all the way out). The EMG is usually performed immediately following a nerve conduction study (a test that measures the flow of current through a nerve before it reaches the muscle rather than the response of the muscle itself). I asked the doctor if he had applied tape and was pulling on it. I was laying on the table almost asleep and felt some tugging on my arm's skin. For my first EMG, I did not know that the test involved needles. In my case, the subject EMG was performed on one side of my body about 1 week before the muscle biopsy was performed on the other side of my body. When they did the muscle biopsy, they told me that it would take some time (I believe several weeks) for things to recover sufficiently from the EMG for the biopsy to produce meaningful results. I generally felt OK right after the tests, though some of the muscles they spent extra time on were a bit crampy and sore for a day or two. ![]()
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