Specialists in neuromuscular diseases possess specialized knowledge and skills in understanding, evaluating, and managing patients with disorders of the anterior horn cell, peripheral nerve, neuromuscular junction and muscles. This requires advanced knowledge of the pathology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of these disorders at a level more advanced than that acquired by a general neurologist. The need for such a specialized neurologist entails training neurology residents in the subspecialty of clinical neurophysiology at the level of a fellow in neurology.
Our Doctors accurately and effectively diagnose the diseases of patients by performing, interpreting, understanding and reporting electroencephalographies (EEG), nerve conduction studies (ENG), electromyographies (EMG) and evoked potential studies (EP).
Neurology Diseases
Neuropathies:
- mononeuropathies
- mononeuritis multiplex
- polyneuropathies:
- immune mediated
- inflammatory
- inherited
- metabolic
- toxic
Myopathies:
- congenital
- hereditary
- muscular dystrophies
- myotonic disorders and channelopathies
- inflammatory myopathies
- toxic myopathies
Motor neuron disorders:
Neuromuscular Disorders:
- myasthenia gravis
- Lambert Eaton syndrome
- infectious
Plexopathies
Radiculopathies
Spinal stenosis
Botulinum toxin intramuscular injections for the treatment of:
- movement disorders/dystonias
- writer's cramp
- migraine
- tension headaches
- hemifacial spasm
- blepharospam
- spasticity post stroke
- spasticity secondary to cerebral palsy
The staff at the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory are:
| Raja Sawaya, MD; Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory; Fellowship Program Director |
| Bassem Yamout, MD |
Achraf Makki, MD
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| Johnny Salameh MD |