zEarthyRanger
Well-known member
Not really posting much any more but I have noticed a couple of people recently who seem to be concerned about fascics on their EMGs.
Just to repost this from the Mayo study of BFS patients:
"A syndrome of benign fasciculation emerges from a study of this group of 121 patients. In the majority of patients, excess fasciculations was demonstrated by EMG, which suggested that the symptom was not simply a heightened awareness of a normal phenomenon."
Of course, none of these patients developed anything sinister.
There are also still many new posters concerned about brisk reflexes. Ginny put it best - there is a big difference between "normally" brisk and pathologically brisk, which a neuro will spot.
Just to repost this from the Mayo study of BFS patients:
"A syndrome of benign fasciculation emerges from a study of this group of 121 patients. In the majority of patients, excess fasciculations was demonstrated by EMG, which suggested that the symptom was not simply a heightened awareness of a normal phenomenon."
Of course, none of these patients developed anything sinister.
There are also still many new posters concerned about brisk reflexes. Ginny put it best - there is a big difference between "normally" brisk and pathologically brisk, which a neuro will spot.