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Quick Refresher for Basics of Electromyogram

Published on Sat Dec 17, 2016

What is an EMG? Your provider will do an electromyogram (EMG) to measure the electrical activity n muscles. As a part of the procedure, your provider may do an EMG with muscles at rest as well as in activity. Why EMG? According to Marcella Bucknam, CPC, CPC-I, CCS-P, CPC-H, CCS, CPC-P, COBGC, CCC, internal audit manager with Peace Health in [...]
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