Table 4.
Motor and sensory nerves electrophysiological characteristics
| Electrophysiological feature |
Motor nerves
|
Sensory nerves
|
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median | Ulnar | Peroneal | Tibial | Median | Ulnar | Sural | |
| Inexcitable nerves < 2 weeks (n = 25) |
1 (4.0) | 2 (8.0) | 5 (20.0) | 2 (8.0) | 8 (32.0) | 6 (24.0) | 9 (36.0) |
| Inexcitable nerves ≥ 2weeks (n = 45) | 1 (2.2) | 2 (4.4) | 9 (20.0) | 7 (15.6) | 20 (44.0) | 23 (56.0) | 16 (36.0) |
| Conduction block | 5 (7.1) | 6 (8.5) | 7 (10.0) | 8 (11.4) | - | - | - |
| Temporal dispersion | 9 (12.8) | 3 (4.3) | 3 (4.3) | 4 (5.7) | - | - | - |
| Absent F-wave | 3 (4.3) | 4 (5.7) | 15 (21.4) | 9 (12.8) | - | - | - |
Data in parenthesis are indicative of %