ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS

WHAT IF ONE BOOK COULD MAKE YOU THE BEST ELECTRODIAGNOSTICIAN IN THE ROOM - EVERY TIME?
Most textbooks teach you what to do. This one teaches you why it works - and that difference is everything.
Electromyography and Neuromuscular Disorders by Dr. Jari Albright, MD, PhD, FAES - one of the world's foremost authorities in clinical neurophysiology with over 28 years of practice, 45,000+ EMG studies performed, and 200+ peer-reviewed publications - is not another passive reference you shelve after residency. It is the living, clinical document of a career spent at the sharp edge of neuromuscular diagnosis.

WHAT IS INSIDE
61 chapters. 7 comprehensive parts. One unified framework.

Part I - Foundations: The action potential. The node of Ranvier. Volume conduction. The physics of the waveform. The biology that makes every number on your screen meaningful.
Part II - Polyneuropathies: Every neuropathy you will encounter - diabetic, hereditary, inflammatory, toxic, vasculitic, paraneoplastic, and small fiber - with the electrodiagnostic algorithm that takes you from the first waveform to the correct diagnosis in the minimum number of steps.
Part III - Motor Neuron Disease: The most consequential diagnosis in neurology, handled with the precision it demands. Gold Coast criteria. Awaji-Shima EMG protocol. The complete mimic table - because diagnosing MMN as ALS is a catastrophe, and this book makes sure it never happens to your patient.
Part IV - Neuromuscular Junction Disorders: Myasthenia gravis in all its antibody subtypes. The pre-vs-postsynaptic rule that no student ever forgets once they learn it here. LEMS. Botulism. Congenital myasthenic syndromes. Every treatment from pyridostigmine to eculizumab.
Part V - Myopathies: IBM - the most misdiagnosed myopathy in medicine, finally decoded. Pompe disease's EMG fingerprint. The statin myopathy you must not miss. DM1's dive-bomber discharge.
Part VI - Radiculopathies and Entrapments: The L5 vs. peroneal distinction. The three-zone Guyon's canal. The across-elbow ulnar pitfalls. The blink reflex in Wallenberg syndrome. Meralgia paresthetica. Sixty-two surgical decisions made better because of what happens before the knife.
Part VII - Advanced Neuromuscular Ultrasound: From the physics of acoustic impedance to the six-finding comparison between CMT1A and CIDP on nerve cross-section. Ultrasound-guided carpal tunnel injection. Diaphragm ultrasound in ALS monitoring. AI, elastography, and the future of the discipline - written by the physician who helped establish the field.


WHO NEEDS THIS BOOK

• Neurology residents who want to pass their ABEM examination on the first attempt and enter practice with confidence
• Clinical neurophysiology fellows who need the depth that training programs rarely have time to provide
• Attending neurologists who perform electrodiagnosis and want to upgrade their interpretive framework and integrate ultrasound
• Physical medicine & rehabilitation physicians who use EMG daily and need a practical, clinically grounded reference
• Neurosurgeons and spine surgeons who need to understand what EMG tells them before they operate
• Allied health professionals - NPs, PAs, and advanced practice providers - working in neuromuscular and electrodiagnostic clinics
• Medical students who want to understand the neuroscience behind the clinical findings that confuse their attendings