Normally when impulses travel down the nerve, the nerve endings release a neurotransmitter substance called acetylcholine, which travels through the short neuromuscular junction and results in the ...

Neuromuscular Junction (NMJ): The synapse or junction between a motor neuron and a muscle fiber, where nerve impulses are transmitted to initiate muscle contraction. Cholinesterase Inhibitors ...

muscles or neuromuscular junctions. Symptoms can include muscle pain, weakness or atrophy, fasciculations or spasms, hypertonia and hypotonia. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is characterised by ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) provides an ACGME accredited, one year, neuromuscular medicine fellowship program. Our fellowship offers comprehensive training in clinical neuromuscular ...

These modalities are often used to comprehensively evaluate nerve and muscle function and help detect the presence, location, and extent of neuromuscular diseases. Using NCS and EMG, we can more ...

Medically reviewed by Katrina Carter, DPT Voluntary muscles, also known as skeletal muscles, are muscles that can be consciously controlled, such as the muscles of your limbs, head, neck, and body.