Fw: Re: EMG test results

["B. BRUCE ANDERSON" <b.bruce.anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe, and Hans - thanks for the info on neuromuscular junction defect.   It
sounds like a symptom rather than a different disease, right?   Any ideas
which disease it might be associated with, if not PD, PD+  or Myasthenia
Gravis?  It keeps getting curiouser, etc.
Thanks,
Bruce A


----- Original Message -----
From: J. R. Bruman <jrbruman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: EMG test results


> In my meager understanding of this, a muscle "works" by each one of its
> cells making a slight chemical change that changes its shape. When most
> or all of these cells do that, the whole muscle changes shape, e.g., it
> goes from long and thin to short and fat, thereby pulling on the bones
> that it is attached to. In order for this change to happen, EVERY cell
> in a voluntary muscle must be linked by two kinds of nerves to the
> brain. An "efferent" nerve carries a signal to each muscle cell, telling
> it what to do. Another "afferent" nerve carries a return signal that
> tells the brain what the muscle cell is doing. A "neuromuscular junction
> defect" means that one or the other of these connections isn't working.
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
> B. BRUCE ANDERSON wrote:
> >
> > I got the results back om my EMG test.> 1.)"...There are no findings to
suggest the presence of myopathy.."
> > 2.) Elsewhere, though. it concludes,  "these findings are suggestive
> > of neuromuscular junction defect."  Hmmm.  I don't now what that is.
> > I have no clue.  Indicative of one of the PD+ diseases, I suspect...
>
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