Enough Pokes - Needles and Twitching

[Hearndog]

O.K. they stuck needles from the bottom of my legs all the way up to the top of my back, was that enough pokes or should they have done other parts of my body that is twitching?

 

[Droid4Free]

yes now I need some clarification - I posted this elsewhere, too. PLEASE CLARIFY! insertion definition - BOTH my EMGs - one by an ALS/MDA center medical director - the neuro put only one needle in each muscle BUT moved it around poking in there several different ways. By feeling, it felt like a good 6-7 times poking around in the muscle. One even said, "OK go this way, now the other direction" poking around once the needle was in, as example, my bicep. WHAT is an insertion - is it the actual poke into the muscle through the skin, or is it the pokes once inside the muscle?

are you saying at least 4 needles per muscle should be inserted through the skin - e.g. they poke into the bicep 4 different times through the skin, or that once the needle has been inserted through the skin into the muscle that the poking/moving around once in there should number 4-5??

 

[garymills]

Feel confident that a dr. at a als/mda clinic anywhere in the world will have enough expertise to determine the necessary number of insertions per muscle needed to perform a clinically significant emg. This argument is a slippery slope that only feeds the anxiety that most of us battle. Don't over analyze your emg test. If there was a problem, the drs. would have found it, that's what they do!

Take care,

Gary