needle electromyography
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Needle Electromyography
DUMITRUChapter 7
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Preparation Patient anxiety Do not show needle Gauze Muscle soreness 1-2 days
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The examiner Disposable glove Sodium hypochloride 15-20 min Distraction technique for entrance
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Art of needle EMG Place and light and speech tone Less painful area with needle tip Apply pinching or stretching the skin VMUAP: needle in SubQ then isometeric Paraspinal :
Push forehead against examiner hand Tighten stomach muscles
Extensors of forearm : relaxed in more supinated position
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Johnson’s 5 step to needle examination
1. muscle at rest / same 2. insertional activity / same 3. minimal muscle contraction / minimal to
moderate 4. maxima muscle contraction/ information
synthesis 5. exploration / impression formulation
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Muscle in rest Sensitivity : 50 micro/ div Sweep : 10 ms/div Monopolar : reference elect. Close to
site Quickly insertion through the skin
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Insertional activity Pyramidal space 0.5- 2 mm insertion Several seconds pause Needle mechanically depolarize muscle fibers Injury potential
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Minimal to moderate contraction Type I fiber analysis 500 mv/div Think of small contraction High amp >5 mv Polyphasia >4 Interference pattern : minimal information
Pain Patient effort Ability for resistance
Exception : type II fiber atrophy (steriod myopathy)
In maximal contraction normal high amp MUAP are absent.
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Information synthesis EDX examination differ from
reading EKG in isolation from patient.
Finally impression formulation
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Electrophysiologyaction potential generation
Membrane potential depolarized from -80 mV to -50 to -60 mV ( threshold) Voltage gated Na channel activated
0.5 ms Then depolarization to +40 mV
Delayed increased K permeability with inactivation of Na channel 2.0 ms
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Isopotential lines
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Needle insertional activity
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Insertinal activity
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Insertional activity Monopolar :
Total time of activity: < 230 ms After needle cessation 48+/- 18 ms
Concentric Total time :<300 ms
In animal after denervation: PSW then Fib Snap crackle and pop :
Normal in young men in Gast. Variable length of time persisted
Another normal variant: Run of PSW S or C few Fib AD inheritance
So Fib & PSW are not always pathologic
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Spontaneous activity After placing a needle into
endplate Miniature endplate potential (MEPPs) Endplate spike
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Difference between MEEPs and endplates
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Innervation ratio
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Single muscle fiber It’s a triphasic wave (+ - +) Biphasic (positive-negative) seen
in: Positive terminal wave is small and
lost Musculotendinous junction Endplate zone
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MUAPs Anatomy
Motor unit definition Types:
Alpha: skeletomotor Beta : skeletofusimotor Gamma: fusiomotor
Alpha situated in ventrolateral horn Limbs motor units located laterally in comparison with
neck and trunk muscle. They have axon collateral to synapse with Renshaw
interneourons and other alpha motor neurons One MU may be distributed over 100 muscle fiber
MUs dos not extended between 2 muscle One single fiber innerveted by only one MN Sometimes 2 NMJ seen but its from one MN
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Electrophysiolgic counting Incremental motor unit counting
Max CMAP divided by mean incremental amplitude
PAS staining Circular region about 20-30% muscle
volume Higher density in enter of motor unit Upper limb MU territory: circular to oval 5-
7 mm Lower limb MU territory: m7-12 mm
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Periodic acid shift staining
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Physiology MU classifications
Fast twitch More force innervated by fact conductive neurons
Slow twitch Small force by slow conductive neurons
Speed of contraction Specific contractile proteins Rate of calcium uptake
Fast twitches have More extensive sarcoplasmic reticulum Richer in Ca-Mg ATPase
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Motor units classification Fast fatigue (FF)
Readily fatigue High tetanus tension Fast contraction time
Slow (s) Low tetanus tension Long contraction time Resistant to fatigue
Third group Moderate tetanic tension Fast twitch time Relatively fatigue resistant (FR)
Forth small intermediate population (F int) Between FF and FR
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Histochemical technique Fatigue resistant: higher activity of
Mitochondrial enzymes Succinate dehydrogenase
Fatigue sensitive: higher activity in Phosphorylase activity (myosin
ATPase
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Recruitment principles Henneman size principle
First MU activated is weakest Then large MUs activated
So contraction in smooth and appropriate to need
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Parameters In one territory
10 MU type I and more than 30 (I&II) Interdigited muscle fibers
Active and inactive fibers Muscle tissue act as LPF (HFF) Reduce peck amplitude
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MUAP parameters figure Amplitude Rise time Duration Phase Spike duration Initial and terminal portion
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Phase Polyphay : 5 or more
Monopolar:30% nl Concentric: 15% nl
Main spike arise from 1-12 muscle fiber <500 mic m distance
Distant potential :After filtering low frequency initial and terminal Small negative spike
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Instrumentation factor Reduction in MUAP amplitude
Reduced HFF Concentric needle Large electrode lead off surface Rotation on concentric needle Removal of Teflon in monopolar
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Effect of temperature on MUAP Controversial Authors opinion:
Reduction of temp Increased initially More dec. in temp.: AP failure and MUAP
decreased In >65 Y : MUAP increased
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MUAP duration Duration depend on:
Width of Endplate Zone Lesser: terminal axon conduction velocity
Inc LFF: Deletion of initial and terminal Dec. duration
Concentric needle : Reduced duration
Cooling Increased duration
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Phase Synchronocity Aging and temperature reducing:
Increased phase Elevating LFF : inc phasicity Monopolar have more polyphasic
potential
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Recruitment Principles:
First MUAP : small and slow type I Minimal to moderate force needed Late type II MUAPs in not simple to analyze Subtle pathology my be miss Increasing fire rate of first MUAP with more force Slow and constant contraction is sufficient for
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Others Equipment :
LFF: 10-30 HFF: 10,000 or more Sweep speed 20 ms/div
Techniques : Identify first MUAP and measure firing
rate
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Recruitment Recruitment frequency:
Frequency of MUAP A when MUAP B begin fireing Recognition:
Observing for second MU to appear Change in sound
Recruitment interval Distance between 2 peaks of MUAP
Normal muscle Recruitment frequency: 10 Hz Recruitment interval: 100 ms Facial muscles: short interval and high frequency
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Normal recruitment1st 2nd 3rd 4th
5 Hz
10 Hz 5 Hz
15 Hz 10 Hz 5 Hz
20 Hz 15 Hz 10 Hz 5 Hz
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Recruitment ratio Recruitment ratio:
Frequency of fastest MUAP divided by number of Different MUAP in screen
Should be close to 5 If near 10: too few MU presented
(neurogenic) If below 4 : too many MU existed
(myogenic) Predicting firing rate:
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Insertional activity Decreased I.A :
Fibrosis Sub Q Attack of periodic paralysis Improper electrode connection
Increased IA: Muscle denervation Other membrane instability
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Fibrillation potential 4-6 or longer days Threshold level and regularly repetition Previous endplate Decreased with:
Decreased temperature Ischemia D-tubocurarine
50 % regular High pitched: crackling cellophane or
rain
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Positive sharp waves Positive wave terminated to base
line Monophasic Same ethiology Purely demyelinatig disease have
PSWs but no fibrilation Combination of Fib/PSW
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Clinical findings Radiculopathy
7-10 days : paraspinal 21 days: limbs
Persistent : sequestrated muscles Amplitude:
First 2 m : 600 micro v End of 3 m: 500 micro v At 6 m: 300 micro v One year: < 100 micro v
In period paralysis : no fib between attacks No difference in needle types
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Grading of fibrillation potentials 0: no fib 1: unsustained <2 region 2: moderate in > 2 region 3: many in all region 4: CRT obliterate in all region
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Complex repetitive discharges
CRD Bizarre high frequency or
pseudomyotonic Heavy machinery or idling motorcycle Hallmark : start and stop abruptly Not stop with nerve block Ephaptical pathway
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3 type of CRD
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Myotonic discharge Myotonia:
Delayed muscle relaxation after contraction Percussion myotonia Warm up Ice effect in paramyotonia congenita
Decreased CL conductance Some patient severity related with K level Sound dive bomber ( waxing and waning)
Seen with or without clinical myotonia
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Classification 1+ : last 500 ms in 3 region 2+ : > ½ needle sites 3+ : all area
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Myotonic potential
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Fasciculation potentials Fasciculation :
visible spontaneous contraction of a portion of muscles
Arise from anterior horn cell Normal in foot intrinsic and GCS Aggravation with:
Anxiety Fatigue Heavay exercise Coffee and smoking
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Fasciculation potentials show
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Myokimic discharge Vermicular movement movement Burst of normal MUAP with interburst silence Sound : low power motor boat engine Difference with CRD:
No regularity in burst of MUs No typical start and stop abruptly They are group of MU but CRD single muscle fiber
Normal in orbic. Oculi Face :
Fatigue , MS, brainstem neoplasm
Mechanisms: transaxonal ephaptic activation
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Myokymic potentials
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Continuous muscle fiber activity CNS and PNS are involved Stiff man syndrome:
CNS: so inhibited with Peripheral and NMJ and spinal block General anesthesia and sleep Diazepam but not phenytion and CMZ
Isaacs syndrome (neuromyotonia): PNS: so inhibited with
Nm block But no peripheral or spinal block or General anesthesia or sleep not diminished
Auto Ab against nerve voltage gated K channels
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Cramps Sustained or painful contraction of multiple MU Exercise or malpositioning Needle: multiple MU synchronously firing 40-50 or
300 Hz Induced by :
Hyponatremia Hypocalcemia Vitamin deficiency Ischemia
Arise from peripheral portion of MU Cramp with electrical silence
Mc Ardle’s disease
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Muscle cramps show
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Multiplet discharge Rapid firing of single MU
Doublets, triplets or multiplet Tetany:
Muscle twitching or Carpopedal spasm Association with:
Alkalosis Hypocalcemia and magnesiumemia Hyperkalemia Local ischemia
Chvostek’s sign facial nerve Peroneal sign : fibular head Trousseau’s sign : limb ischemia
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Doublet and triplet
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Neural loss 2 process after denervation:
Re-growth 2-3 mm/day Collateral sprouting
Point of node of Ranvier Bunds of bunger : remaining Schwan cell
sheaths Each MN : support 4-5 times
So 20 % remaining could cover others Fiber types grouping
2 weeks MU territory remain unchanged
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Muscle loss Muscle fiber loss Muscle fibers approximated but no
electrical summation Fiber type grouping also occur
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MUAP findings in muscle disease MUAP duration decreased Increase number of phase Fiber splitting and slow conduction:
Satellite potential 10% in normal 12 % in neuropathy 45 % in myopathy Responsible for abnormal long duration 60 ms
Large MUAP: needle near hypertrophic fibers
Segmental necrosis : Fib/PSW
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Neurogenic recruitment show
Decreased recruitmet Recruitment ratio : > 5 Neuropraxia could mimic that
1st 2nd 3rd 4th
20
25 0 0
30 0 0 20
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Myogenic recruitment show
Increased MU firing Early or increased recruitment Recruitment ratio < 3
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
15 15 15 15 15
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Other entity CVA
First MU 7-8 firing rate Second MU 10-15
50-60 Hz EKG 1Hz Pacemaker
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Pain Cervical paraspinal Lumbosacral paraspinal Intrinsic hand muscle
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Contraindication No absolute Relative :
Needle in coagulopathy Increased bleeding in:
Plt < 50.000 PT & PTT > 1.5 – 2 times nl
Hemophilia: optimized clotting factors Lymphedema:
Infection : iodine solution use Alcohol : questionable HIV chance : 0.5 % after needling Pneumothorax
Cervical if needle far from mid line inserted
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Other entity Muscle biopsy CK level 1.5 nl return 48 H to base
line