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Originally Posted by itsback
Could you please explain the conflict that you see on the report? The test was conducted by a Spine & Muscle/Joint Specialist who completed his training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with a subspecialty in Spine & Musculoskeletal Medicine and Pain Medicine. I have been seeing him for a few months now.
I have received a round of steroid epidural injections from him using Fluoroscopy. It helped some but not that much. I would say it reduced my pain by about 30%. He is trained in acupuncture so I have gotten a couple of treatments from him. He prescribed specially compounded nerve/pain cream for me, but it is very expensive and my insurance doesn't cover it. I am not sure if it really works or not either.
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Sure, here is what you wrote:
"EMG/Nerve Conduction Study
Tender over lumbar PSM at L4/5 and L5/S1 bilaterally. Limited lumbar AROM. Tender over buttock and greater trochanter bilaterally."
Respectfully, those read like clinical findings from a physical exam. EMG reports are normally written so as to discuss various wave types, needle insertional abnormalities, etc., over tested muscles and whether or not those findings are abnormal. NCV reports discuss velocity of peripheral nerve transmission usually compared to the contralateral side and whether or not there is slowing of conduction. None of it reads like a typical EMG/NCV report. Sorry! I am not implying anything at all, and am sure that your statements about efficatous treatments are true. Rather just a simple direct statement that your EMG/NCV report does not read like a conventional report or offer anything that such a report would afford (at least so far as you have offered). Can't offer advice that you seek about opinions not supplied!