Introduction: The reference values for NCV for different nerve vary considerably from population to population & from region to region. There are number of factors that affect NCV like age, gender & temperature. The importance of MNCS for the evaluation of the functional status of the patient’s median nerve for comparing the effect of therapeutic intervention with various diseases that affect NCV is well known in various studies.
Aims: To establish the normal electrophysiological data, NCV variables i.e. CMAP for the Rt. Median Nerve in normal healthy adults and to study the effect of gender on NCS variables in healthy adults.
Materials and Method: All together 38 females and 80 male subjects, from first year MBBS, BDS, Staff members of Index Medical College Hospital & Research Center, Indore (M.P), between age group of 20 to 60 years were evaluated. All tests were done on JAVA RMS Aleron-201 series. Analysis was done using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) 10.0 version.
Results: The mean ages of male were more than that of female with P value non-significant. The mean NCV elbow-wrist of males were more than that of female with P value = 0.038 which was found to be highly-significant.
Conclusion: The normative conduction parameter of commonly tested peripheral nerve in upper limb could be used for the evaluation of peripheral nerve injury. Gender has definite effect on NCS variables Diagnostic conclusion could also be made from the nerve conduction study data.
