Quick Appointments at Sunshine State Medical Clinic

• Prompt Scheduling: Appointments are available weekly, thanks to our in-house medical professional.
• Patient-Centered Care: Personalized and comfortable testing experience.

We have a quick guide to help you understand what happens when you visit our clinic

EMG is a diagnostic procedure to assess the health of muscles and nerve cells. This test will help your doctor diagnose if you have signs or symptoms that may indicate nerve or muscle disorder.

Symptoms may include:

• Tingling
• Numbness
• Muscle Weakness
• Muscle Pain or cramping

The test consist of a measurement of speed of conduction of an electrical impulse through a nerve. An NCV can determine nerve damage and destruction.

Also Called an Electroneurography, EneG, or nerve Conduction Study.

Diseases or health problems may be checked with an NCV include:

• Guillain-Barré syndrome. 

A condition in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system. The first symptoms may include weakness or a tingling sensation in the legs.

• Carpal tunnel syndrome. 

A health problem in which the median nerve, which runs from the forearm into the hand, becomes pressed or squeezed at the wrist by enlarged tendons or ligaments. This causes pain and numbness in the fingers.

• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. 

An inherited neurological condition that affects both the motor and sensory nerves. It causes weakness of the foot and lower leg muscles.

• Herniated disk disease. 

This health problem occurs when the fibrous cartilage that surrounds the disks of your vertebrae breaks down. The center of each disk, which contains a gelatinous substance, is forced outward. This places pressure on a spinal nerve. It causes pain and damage to the nerve.

• Nerve damage (neuropathy). 

This condition may occur from many health issues, such as diabetes, chemotherapy treatment, autoimmune disorders like chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy, or alcoholism. Symptoms may include numbness or tingling in a single nerve or many nerves at the same time.

• Sciatic nerve problems. 

There are many causes of sciatic nerve problems. The most common is a bulging or ruptured spinal disk that presses against the roots of the nerve leading to the sciatic nerve. Pain, tingling, or numbness often result.