The 2009 AANEM Annual Meeting CD-ROM contains PDFs of all of the course books, Plenary Session, workshop handouts, and abstracts from the Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. This is a great way to search the course books at your leisure.

CME credit is not available for the Plenary Session or other course books on this CD-ROM.

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This book covers the conceptual framework for patient history and physical examination for common neuromuscular disorders, the strengths and limitations of the needle EMG examination in the evaluation of these disorders, and the anatomy and physiology of peripheral nerve and muscle and the pathophysiologic changes that occur with common neuromuscular disorders. This course book covers the approach to patients with generalized weakness, radiculopathies, peripheral neuropathy and numbness. This book is bundled with the 2009 Dysimmune Neuropathies course book.

Learn about the scope of immune-mediated disorders that affect the peripheral nerve. Emphasis is given to the appropriate classification of dysimmune neuropathies and the optimal diagnostic approach. Evidence-based treatment options are discussed as well as the research relevant to these disorders. This book is bundled with the 2009 Current Approaches to Common Neuromuscular Problems course book.

Part one of this two-part neuromuscular update course presents the reader with clinical cases in neuromuscular diseases. After reading this course book, the reader will learn how to diagnose, evaluate, and in some instances treat neuromuscular diseases. Update I covers focal mononeuropathy - foot drop and its differential, systemic disease, exercise-induced cramps, metabolic myopathies, and hyperexcitability disorders. This book contains Neuromuscular Update I and II.

As a clinical EDX physician, this course book can help you learn to distinguish and contrast presentations of musculoskeletal hip and pelvic pain including the myths and facts about piriformis syndrome. Learn to develop a clinical and electrodiagnostic approach to lumbosacral plexopathy. You will also be introduced to orthopedic treatment options for the hip, pelvis and lower limb in neuromuscular disease and the surgical treatment options in nerve injury. This book is bundled with the 2009 Critical Care Course Book.

Neuromuscular disorders are a common cause of prolonged weakness and failure to wean from mechanical ventilation. Get up-to-date information on various electrophysiologic techniques used to assess patients with neuromuscular respiratory failure. Learn current approaches to the management of myasthenic crisis. Learn to recognize critical illness polyneuropathy and critical illness myopathy. This book is bundled with the 2009 The Hip and The Neuromuscular Physician From EDX to Coxa Saltans course book.

Iatrogenic neuromuscular disorders such as medication induced peripheral neuropathies, myopathies, and neuromuscular transmission disorders are discussed in this book. Learn to manage patients with acute ventilatory failure in the ICU related to the use of steroids and neuromuscular blocking agents and patients with failure to wean due to underlying neuromuscular disease. This book is bundled with the 2009 It Hurts Everywhere But My Shoulder - A Collaborative Approach to Upper Extremity Pain course book.

With this course book, you can learn to integrate neuromusculoskeletal diagnoses into the electrodiagnostic medicine consultation. It focuses on musculoskeletal problems affecting the hand, wrist, forearm, and elbow. The physician will learn the anatomy and clinical examination relevant to these disorders as well the the diagnostic approach and treatment strategies. The course also examines the value of the integration of these disorders into the electrodiagnostic medicine consultation. This book is bundled with the 2009 Iatrogenic Neuromuscular Disorders.

The different forms of therapeutic exercise are discussed in this course book. Learn the difference between therapeutic exercise and the lay perceptions of exercise. Maximize exercise efficacy by learning how it is affected by proper performance and by being diagnosis-specific. You can also learn how exercise influences nerve and muscle function at a metabolic level in health and disease. Also, learn to choose when exercise is appropriate for your patients with neuromuscular disease. This book also covers the role of exercise in optimizing physical performance in sports.