The Atlas of Electromyography is a visually alluring book which provides high quality anatomical illustrations of skeletal muscles that include nerve, plexus, and root supply; photographs of each muscle in healthy subjects to enable the practitioner to identify the optimum site of EMG needle insertion; clinical features of the major conditions affecting peripheral nerves; and electrodiagnostic strategies for confirming suspected lesions of the peripheral nervous system.
The atlas is divided into sections on the major peripheral nerves. Each nerve is illustrated and its anatomy reviewed in the text. The authors provide a detailed outline of the clinical conditions and entrapment syndromes that affect the nerve, including a list of etiologies, clinical features, and electrodiagnostic strategies used for each symdrome. Each muscle supplied by the peripheral nerve is shown as an anatomical illustration with a corresponding human photograph. The text provides information about the muscle origin, tendon insertion, voluntary activation maneuver, and site of optimum needle insertion. The needle insertion point is identified in both the anatomical illustration and the corresponding photographs. This assures that pertinent bone, muscular, and soft tissue landmarks can be used to guide the electromyographer to a specific point on the skin. Potential pitfalls associated with the needle insertion are added, usually noting adjacent muscles or structures that may be mistakenly entered. Clinical correlates pertinent to the muscle being examined are also provided. The tlas of Electromyography serves as an anatomical guide for practitioners of electromyography and neurologists, as well as residents i neurology, physical medicine, and rehabilitation.

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Excellent EMG localization text:

This book is very well organized and is a great resource for residents and those who do electromyography. Detailed pictures show insertion points of both common upper and lower extremity muscles, but also those less common locations including the face and neck. The text explains activations needed to elicit a response as well as possible pitfalls for each location. This is an excellent book written by an excellent clinician.

Coffee Table EMG:

Not being a doctor, I don't do clinical EMG, but I do intraoperative EMG all the time, and it's very useful for that as well. This book doesn't offer any technical information about how to do EMG; as the title indicates, it's an atlas, not a handbook, so you have to know how to do the studies. This is a handy reference for the motor points, innervation, basic clinical correlation, test maneuvers and pitfalls for commonly studied muscles.
It's relatively large, maybe not _quite_ coffee table book size,... more info

atlas of Electromyography:

Very useful book, with the use of this book you can do EMG, botox and myobloc injection in hand, forarm and neck muscles very easely. Provides very good pictures of the muscles with their nerve supply and roots/segments. I start to use it in my clinic on patients that needed rare type of EMG testing muscles and it helps alot. This book shows and instruct you to find the muscle that you are looking for, the muscle primary fuction and movement. I highly recommend this book to whom wants to do EMG, botox or... more info

An excellent reference: