Myo-Neurography 1990-2020 along the Knowledge Items for the EMG-Certificate of the German Neurophysiological Society (DGKN)

The knowledge points for the EMG certificate of the DGKN (https://dgkn. de/images/bedingungen/RL18_EMG_Wissen-punkte. pdf) were last edited 10 years ago. This last update made only minor changes. Almost all of these points are listed essentially unchanged since the author of these lines has been running EMG, i. e. for more than 30 years. This article attempts to use these points to show what has changed during this time, what is new, but also what was left behind - or should be left behind.

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The knowledge points for the EMG certificate of the DGKN were last updated 10 years ago with only minor changes. This article attempts to show what has changed, what is new, and what has been left behind in EMG practice over the past 30 years.