Neuromuscular Disorders

• Nerve conduction study: Evaluates how well electrical signals travel through your nerves to detect nerve damage or dysfunction.
• Electromyography (EMG): Measures muscle response to nerve signals, helping diagnose muscle and nerve disorders.
• Single-fiber electromyography: A highly sensitive test to detect neuromuscular junction disorders like myasthenia gravis.
• QSART (Quantitative Sudomotor Axon Reflex Testing): Assesses small nerve fiber function by measuring sweat gland activity.
• Tilt table test with autonomic function testing: Diagnoses autonomic disorders, such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and orthostatic hypotension.

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Neuromuscular disorders are medical conditions that affect the nerves and muscles in your body. Your nerves and muscles work together to help you move, breathe, and do everyday activities. When something goes wrong with this system, it can make your muscles weak, cause cramps, or even make it hard to move or control your body.

Neuromuscular diseases are conditions that affect the way your nerves and muscles work together. Your nerves send signals from your brain to your muscles, telling them to move. If there’s a problem with the nerves, muscles, or the connection between them, it can cause weakness, cramps, or trouble moving.

The neuromuscular system is the part of your body that helps your brain, nerves, and muscles work together so you can move, breathe, and do everyday activities. It’s like a communication system: your brain sends messages through your nerves to your muscles, telling them what to do, like lifting your arm or walking.

The most common neuromuscular disease is myasthenia gravis (MG). This condition causes weakness in the muscles that you use for movement, breathing, and other daily activities. It happens because the connection between the nerves and muscles doesn’t work properly. In myasthenia gravis, the immune system attacks this connection, making it harder for muscles to respond to signals from the nerves.