{"id":3017,"date":"2010-05-12T12:17:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2025-01-22T08:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:10:19","slug":"a-neurological-diagnostics-machine-helps-to-detect-disease-and-deafness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/2010\/05\/12\/a-neurological-diagnostics-machine-helps-to-detect-disease-and-deafness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Neurological Diagnostics Machine Helps to Detect Disease and Deafness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Web Extra<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Marcia Hill Gossard \u201999, \u201904 Ph.D. | Photo by Henry Moore Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vth.vetmed.wsu.edu\/specialties\/neurology\">WSU neurology service<\/a>&#8216;s new electrodiagnostics machine will help make advanced muscle and nerve disorder diagnoses thanks to a generous friend of the college. Electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction velocity (NCV) are two of the medical tests veterinarians will be able to perform with the new equipment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a valuable tool for diagnosing muscle and nerve disorders in our patients,&#8221; said Dr. Annie Chen-Allen, a WSU veterinary neurologist. &#8220;We can also use this machine to diagnose deafness, which, as a hereditary disorder, is especially important for breeders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An EMG diagnostic test is often used when patients show signs of muscle weakness or atrophy, while a NCV is used when symptoms include pain or numbness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a very important tool for patient diagnostics,&#8221; said Dr. Chen-Allen. &#8220;With it we can more easily identify diseases that involve the muscles, nerves, and the hearing centers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new machine will also be a valuable learning tool for veterinary students, interns, and residents. They will learn firsthand how to perform these diagnostic tests and interpret the recorded information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This machine has the ability to make recordings so that we can play back the abnormalities for teaching purposes,&#8221; said Dr. Chen-Allen. &#8220;We are very grateful to have this new device to train future veterinarians and to better care for our patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WSU neurology service&#8217;s new Electrodiagnostics machine will help make advanced muscle and nerve disorder diagnoses thanks to a generous friend of the college. Electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction velocity (NCV) are two of the medical tests veterinarians will be able to perform with the new equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":3019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[542,514],"tags":[619,540,614],"wsuwp_university_location":[332],"wsuwp_university_org":[425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvm.wsu.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}