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An overview of motor unit number index reproducibility in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Author(s) -
Davood Fathi,
Shahriar Nafissi,
Shahram Attarian,
Christoph Neuwirth,
Farzad Fatehi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
current journal of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2717-011X
DOI - 10.18502/ijnl.v18i3.1635
Subject(s) - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , reproducibility , physical medicine and rehabilitation , medicine , neurophysiology , psychology , neuroscience , pathology , disease , mathematics , statistics
Motor unit number index (MUNIX) is an electrophysiological technique to give an estimate of functioning motor neurons in a muscle. For any given neurophysiological technique for the use in clinical or research studies, reproducibility between different operators and in a single operator in different times is one of the most important qualities, which must be evaluated and approved by different examiners and centers. After its introduction, testing the reproducibility of MUNIX was the aim of many studies to show this quality of the technique. In this review, we aimed to summarize all the studies, which have been performed up to now to approve MUNIX reproducibility in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis comparing healthy individuals.