ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS : Clinical-Electrophysiologic-Ultrasound Correlations, Diagnosis, and Management A Practical Guide for Neurologists, Residents, and Electrodiagnostic

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 INSIDE61 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 attendingsTHE VERDICT FROM THE FIELD"The book I wish existed when I was a fellow. The book I will give every resident I train.""If you perform EMG and you do not own this book, you are working without the best tool in your discipline.""This is what a medical textbook should be — rigorous enough for the expert, clear enough for the trainee, and honest about what we still do not know." Read more