They say small electric pulses.when the doc hit me with that pulse it felt like what I assume a seziure would feel like. The Nerve Conduction Study was painful enough.
They stick little needles into the muscle to measure the electrical activity of that muscle. The nerve response is picked up by a recording instrument and is then measured by your doctor. The small electric pulses cause a mild tingling feeling. The signals are made to travel along the nerve by applying small electric pulses to the nerve at one site and recording the response at a different place along the nerve. The Nerve Conduction Study tests how signals travel along the nerve, helping to isolate the cause of abnormal nerve function.
The EMG (electromyography) Study tests for abnormalities in the muscle or the nerve going to the muscle.
