Silvermaple
Member
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2018
- Messages
- 12
- Reason
- Learn about ALS
- Country
- US
- State
- There
- City
- Here
As a follow up to my previous thread that was closed, I had a clean EMG on Friday. The NCV did end up showing that I have moderate carpal tunnel in my right wrist and mild carpal tunnel in my left wrist. My neurologist also thinks that my hands are just naturally the way they are, he said it's not atrophy.
So I read online after my EMG that you are supposed to contract the muscle when the needle is in it but I wasn't told to do that. I didn't move at all. It was done completely at rest. He did several spots on both of my legs, my right arm, my hip, the top of my spine and my thenar muscle in my right hand. Was it done correctly if I didn't flex/contract my muscles?
And I also don't have bulbar symptoms really, sometimes my mouth feels dry and it seems harder to talk and one side of my tongue seems like it goes in on one side making my tongue look smaller on that side. And sometimes I bite my tongue when talking. Should I be concerned about bulbar onset? He did not emg that area, he didn't feel that I needed it.
So I read online after my EMG that you are supposed to contract the muscle when the needle is in it but I wasn't told to do that. I didn't move at all. It was done completely at rest. He did several spots on both of my legs, my right arm, my hip, the top of my spine and my thenar muscle in my right hand. Was it done correctly if I didn't flex/contract my muscles?
And I also don't have bulbar symptoms really, sometimes my mouth feels dry and it seems harder to talk and one side of my tongue seems like it goes in on one side making my tongue look smaller on that side. And sometimes I bite my tongue when talking. Should I be concerned about bulbar onset? He did not emg that area, he didn't feel that I needed it.