This internationally known Center provides advanced electrodiagnostic testing to patients for diagnoses ranging from peripheral neuritis to movement abnormalities.
These tests include:
- sophisticated nerve conduction studies which include needle electromyography and repetitive nerve stimulation
- single fiber EMG studies
- brain stem, auditory, visual, and somatosensory evoked potential tests
- electroencephalograms
- electrocardiograms
- sleep studies
- carotid Doppler and ultrasound testing
- intraoperative monitoring of carotid, cardiac, and spinal cord surgeries
UAB performs muscle and nerve biopsy surgeries and interpretations on frozen, paraffin-fixed, and semithin EM sections of tissue for the diagnosis of myopathies and neuropathies of many kinds. Physicians in this service also offer patients specialized treatments for spasmodic dysphonia, torticollis, and other movement abnormalities.