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EMG: Electromyogram or Electromyelogram. A test to evaluate the motor function of the peripheral nerves and the related spinal nerves. The test involves use of a needle to test nerve conduction speed. The method of the EMG is to insert small needles in muscle groups and observe for electrical indications of denervation or loss of nerve function. Emotional Lability: Exhibiting rapid and drastic changes in emotional state (laughing, crying, anger) inappropriately without apparent reason. Encephalography: Non-invasive use of ultrasound waves to record echoes from brain tissue. Used to detect hematoma, tumor or ventricle problems. End Feel: The quality of the resistance to movement that the health care provider feels when testing the range of motion end point of a particular joint. Epidural: Outside the brain and its fibrous covering, but under the skull. Epidural Block: The injection of anesthetic into the epidural space in order to block or desensitize a specific nerve at particular points of a nerve pathway. Epidural Space: The space outside the dura of the brain and spinal cord. The dura is the outer membrane covering the spinal cord and the brain. Epidural Steroid Injection: The injection of a potent anti-inflammation drug into the epidural space around the nerve or joint for therapeutic purposes. It is used to decrease inflammation in the spinal space and spinal nerves and reduce pain. Estate Plan: A plan for how a person’s property should be handled after the person dies or becomes unable to make informed decisions about their property because of a disability. A will is part of an estate plan. Estate Recovery: A federal law requiring the state to take money or property from certain people after they die in order to pay for the Medicaid services the state spent on the person while they were living. Evidence: Testimony, writings, material objects, etc. that are admissible and offered by a party to the trier of fact to prove the existence or non-existence of a fact. Evoked Potential: Registration of the electrical response of brain cells as detected by electrodes placed on the surface of the head at various places. The evoked potential, unlike the waves on an EEG, is elicited by a specific stimulus applied to the visual, auditory or other sensory receptors of the body. Evoked potentials are used to diagnose a wide variety of central nervous system disorders. Executive Functions: Planning, prioritizing, sequencing, self-monitoring, self-correcting, inhibiting, initiating, controlling or altering behavior. Expert Witness: An individual who possesses specialized knowledge through skill, education, training, or experience beyond that of the ordinary person or juror, and whose knowledge will aid the triers of fact (jury, judge, arbitrator) in reaching a proper decision. Often, a health care provider who examines and evaluates a patient in anticipation of litigation. Extension: A movement that brings two parts of a joint toward a straight position. In the lumbar spine, this is starting in a forward bent position and returning to a straight position (the neutral or standing position) or bending backwards from the neutral position. In the cervical spine the term is used to refer to the movement involved in looking-up or starting in a forward bent position and returning to a straight position. Extradural Defect: Indentation of the thecal sac or dura by disc bulge, osteophyte, defect in the bone,ligament, cyst or tumor. This terminology is often used by radiologists noting abnormalities on imaging studies. Extremity: Arm or leg. Extruded Disc: See Herniated Disc. |
Edema: Collection
of fluid in the tissue causing swelling.