AMA CPT® Assistant - 1996 Issue 1 (January)
New Codes for H-reflex and F-wave Studies (January 1996)
January 1996 pages 1-4 New Codes for H-reflex and F-wave Studies H-reflex and F-wave studies are noninvasive ways to assess the peripheral nervous system. In F-wave and H-reflex studies, a nerve trunk is stimulated and the response of the innervated muscle is recorded. These studies evaluate the entire length of a nerve, from the spinal cord to the innervated muscle. H-reflex and F-wave studies are useful in detecting proximal pathology in nerves that would not be detected by standard motor and sensory nerve conduction techniques, such as lesions at the nerve root level that can occur in cervical or...
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