It's estimated that 15 to 20 million Americans suffer from nerve pain. Including Robin Martinoli. She retired from the Pentagon, and took up quilting, but then painful carpal tunnel syndrome changed ...

This week we are going to discuss not an injury but a specific test that is performed to diagnose an injury. That test? The nerve conduction velocity test or NCV/EMG. The nerve conduction velocity ...

This week we are going to discuss a diagnostic test which is often ordered to differentiate between diseases of the nerve and muscle, as well as the nerve itself and the myelin sheath of the nerve. A ...

The Tinel sign test dates back to 1915 and is used to check for nerve problems called neuropathies. Experts disagree about how well the test works. The Tinel sign is the result of a simple, ...

Damage to the median nerve within the carpal tunnel gives rise to carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), which is associated with a wide spectrum of symptoms. The predominant classic symptoms are nocturnal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Regardless of whether a clinical or electrodiagnostic reference standard was used, the scratch collapse test had ...

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common condition that causes pain, numbness, tingling and weakness in the hand and arm. It occurs when the median nerve, one of the major nerves to the hand, is compressed ...