Conduction studies of the saphenous nerve in healthy subjects
Wainapel, S.F.; Kim, D.J.; Ebel, A.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 59(7): 316-319
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9993 PMID: 210740 Document Number: 134874
An easily performed and reproducible method is described for the antidromic determination of conduction velocity in the saphenous nerve. Eighty nerves were studied in 40 healthy subjects and the mean values obtained were as follows: latency 3.6 .+-. 0.4 ms, conduction velocity 41.7 .+-. 3.4 m/s, amplitude 9.0 .mu.V. This new technique should be useful in the electrodiagnostic evaluation of peripheral neuropathy, femoral neuropathy and saphenous nerve entrapment syndrome.